The company’s shares have been hurt by the artificial intelligence “scare trade,” which has rippled through various corners of the market, from software and IT services firms to so-called “old economy” industries such as logistics

The OpenAI deal turns ChatGPT into a storefront for licensed photographs. Its silence on training is what Getty's 600,000 contributors should read first.

It is unclear if the deal will allow OpenAI to train its image generation models using Getty’s vast library of editorial and stock images.