Getty Images strikes multi-year deal to put licensed photos in ChatGPT search

Getty Images signed a multi-year licensing deal with OpenAI to put licensed photos in ChatGPT search. Getty's stock surged about 200% in premarket trading. The deal aims to make AI-powered search more trustworthy, though financial terms were not disclosed.

Getty Images strikes multi-year deal to put licensed photos in ChatGPT search Getty Images has signed a multi-year licensing deal with OpenAI. Licensed images from Getty's catalog will now show up in ChatGPT's search and discovery features. Neither side disclosed financial terms or whether OpenAI will use Getty content to train future models. Getty's stock jumped about 200 percent in premarket trading after the announcement, Bloomberg reports https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/getty-images-soars-200-in-early-trading-after-openai-deal . The stock had dropped roughly 55 percent earlier this year. Getty CEO Craig Peters said licensed content makes AI-powered search more useful and trustworthy. Getty initially pushed back against AI image generation https://the-decoder.com/image-and-art-platforms-ban-ai-images-from-dall-e-2-and-co/ , then built its own generator https://the-decoder.com/nvidias-picasso-brings-generative-ai-to-adobe-getty-images-and-shutterstock/ and sued Stability AI https://the-decoder.com/uk-judge-rules-that-ai-image-generator-stable-diffusion-is-not-an-infringing-copy/ . The company is also still waiting for approval of its $3.7 billion acquisition of Shutterstock. AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now