Getty Images / iStock 'AI Services' royalties (payment for machine learning training) in one month to one contributor (iStock portfolio 9,158 images and 1,029 clips)
$4.43 (AI Services, iStock) per month, against portfolio size
Dated Dec 2024Source checked 20 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 23 Oct 2026Basis: reported
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“I checked my earnings and earned a whopping $4.43. ... only earning $4/month from AI training on over 9,000 images and 1,000 clips”
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- $0.014 per imageImages, sales that happened, per image
- 0.03xHow much more buyers pay than holders are offered for images, per image