There's a lot of stuff going on in the background about copyright and the way AI is using our photographs to generate new content. Whether you're professional or not, you may have a view on this.

Me, I don't like large companies using my photos without my knowledge or permission to create something for someone else. That's how I used to earn my income as a photographer. But the fact that AI is investing billions shows just how much money they hope to make - yet without 'our' material to generate their large language models, what do they have?

Image Makers Australia is doing a little work in the background on behalf of photographers and has produced an anonymous online survey to see what photographers think. I'm pretty sure most of us would like some compensation if our work is being used to generate those billions in profit. Even if we're not professionals or don't need the money, rather than making the tech company shareholders that much richer, we could take the money and give it to a charity. 

To read what's happening and have your say, read and do the survey before 5 December. 

https://www.imagemakersassociation.com.au/ai-remuneration-survey-2025