It is the same for me. There is no statement on their Twitter channel.

Offline for me trying to access from New York 4:30 pm EDT March 19

Works fine for me - other than no recent sales.

Is their ftp working now ?

Perhaps Alamy has changed some internal link structures. My saved bookmarks for Contributor Dashboard are not working. If I start at Alamy dot Com and click through the My Account and login access, all works.

Everything seems to be working now except for the forum.

They changed the web address

It used to be https://secure.alamy.com/myalamy-aim.aspx

Now its https://www.alamy.com/myalamy-aim.aspx

Put in the new address it should take you to the contibutor dashboard

So here with us (Germany) there were no problems.

Could also the last few days under the link https://www.alamy.de/myalamy-aim.aspx in my dashboard and also continue to forum.

Quote from: RalfLiebhold on March 20, 2023, 12:39

So here with us (Germany) there were no problems.

Could also the last few days under the link https://www.alamy.de/myalamy-aim.aspx in my dashboard and also continue to forum.

can you post in forum?  Nothing new showing in last 24 hours and it's usually more active

True, I can read in the forum, but not sign in.

I was just in the forum. It was accessable via login. However we seem to be missing some discussion categories. Maybe a data restore is still in progress?

The notice at the bottom of the Forum has: There are no registered users currently online
I don't want to start a new account just to see if I can sign in that way.

Right now:

    Allan Bell Ognyan Yosifov Michael Ventura John Morrison Eric Hanauer John Mitchell Phil Robinson Harry Harrison NYCat


AKA the usual suspects? 

(ab)using this thread

Does Alamy take generative ai?

They have declined all of mine.

Initially my batch was too large, then I broke it down to 2-4 files but it always gets declined.

But I see they have a lot of gen ai content online.

Have they changed their policy?

For what they are paying for partner sales, they should welcome anything they can get.

I made a few, that were my original images, upload to, and altered using DALL-E2. They are my own, with some help from AI. Not someone else's work in any way, to transform them. No prompts or anything, just my image uploaded and four variations created. Then I altered that myself.

Officially:  https://www.alamy.com/blog/ai-and-your-images-protecting-rights-and-creating-opportunities#:~:text=While%20the%20sources%20for%20AI%20image%20generation%20by,all%20of%20this%20content%20that%20we%20can%20identify.

"While the sources for AI image generation by many platforms are at worst scraped without permission and at best unclear, we cannot accept AI generated material on Alamy. It already breaches our standard terms and conditions because it is not necessarily free from rights. We are in the process of removing all of this content that we can identify."

OK, thank you!

They have a lot of content with keywords generative ai.

That is why I started uploading.

Yes, I think they did take it before, then didn't? I'm a firm believer in "I don't honestly know for sure". One place they say they don't, another they had a way to tag images as Generative AI.

But going from the Alamy Blog they don't?

If the words are in the artists keywrods and titles, how many people use an uploading service that sends to everywhere all the same. How many people don't edit their keywords and descriptions for each agency. I have to laugh, if you search Alamy for Zuma, there are people who work for them, that leave the required "Zuma News" in the keywords.

I can guess that people who upload to Adobe, will leave in the required Generative AI notices.

Hey, someone write to Alamy and ask, please? I have to go fix the car... and go shopping. I'm the one cooking dinner tonight. 

Quote from: Uncle Pete on April 25, 2023, 12:55

I made a few, that were my original images, upload to, and altered using DALL-E2. They are my own, with some help from AI. Not someone else's work in any way, to transform them. No prompts or anything, just my image uploaded and four variations created. Then I altered that myself.

And you really think AI just generated 4 different variations with ONLY using your photo and is not resorting to its training with billions of copyrighted images? Seems a bit naive.

Have you anything positive to say that my image and the results were not just warped versions? There's nothing added, no other image was cloned or made into a collage. Yes I'm naive to think that I uploaded and image, the AI changed it, and didn't use anyone else's image, directly, to do that. Or you are possibly, negative and trying as hard as possible to find things wrong with everything. Must be pretty gloomy and depressing.

I'll stay with my head in the clouds, looking for the good in things and stay naive. Thanks

I have an idea, upload a B&W drawing and see what DALL-E gives you back. It does not use other images, to create the new images. It is 100% the original image and nothing more, sometimes less.

And if you mean AI looked at images and learned, yes, I read the dictionary sometimes, I know more words, that doesn't mean that because the dictionary was created from researching books and looking for meaning, that I plagiarizer someone else's writing.

And if you mean AI looked at images and learned, yes, I read the dictionary sometimes, I know more words, that doesn't mean that because the dictionary was created from researching books and looking for meaning, that I plagiarizer someone else's writing.

Ah, so you do agree with me that other than your work was used to create your work.

What you describe is the WHOLE problem with AI content being trained by images they had no right to use and why several Ai generators are currently being sued.

Some people still do not seem to understand how AI works. Ai image generators are not going through some database scrapping the hand from one image, the eye from another, the dress for a third, the background from a forth and so one. They create images all based on what they have learned by "looking" at existing artwork in the past.

Anyway back to the thread 

Alamy is offline this morning just getting HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.

Sounds as bad as this years sales. 

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/alamy.com.html   "More than a week ago Last Down:"

But... "Discussion.alamy.com is DOWN
It is not just you. The server is not responding..."

This checks out OK:  https://www.alamy.com/myupload/index.asp  "More than a week ago Last Down:"

As far as I can tell, Alamy is fine, the contributor tools show as being online and the forum is still broken.

Of course I'm trusting a site that pings and checks, and I don't know how reliable their data actually is.