Dataset earnings

Does any one know or explain me what is Dataset earning? I have a sale and it says Dataset earning? Something to do with AI content creation but I did not really understand what all it means.Anyone had any similar sales?

This morning I noticed I had sales for Partner and Dataset sales. I read P5 explanations but....

Same here, got few $ for this. It seems that some pictures and or video and or metadata are used to train AI system and medias are not sold.

I've also had a Dataset earning for about $10 and have read the page all about it. Same as others, I'm none the wiser after reading it. AI something, but how is our media actually being used?

Same Here I Also Received Some Dollars Today...

I'm not sure how these earnings have been calculated. My non-exclusive portfolio containing nearly 800 clips earned nearly $30, while my Pond5 exclusive portfolio of 270 clips earned less than $2. There is no great difference between the types of content in my two portfolios so it is unclear why one should be, presumably, more greatly used than the other.

It means that they took our shit and used it as training data for generative Ai programs like midjourney and stable diffusion. This is essentially a payoff that they think will be enough for us to be ok with it. You shouldn't be, This is FUCKED UP because no one asked in advance.

I will be turning this permission off and I suggest you all do the same.

Looks like that when we put keywords, we are training AI

Please forgive this response, as it's going to run long. (TL;DR -- I'm grateful for the income but concerned about an apparent lack of transparency.)

I checked in on my dashboard this morning to find more than $100 in "dataset earnings." "WTF!!!," I say to myself. I clicked on the link and read more about the whole "computer vision dataset" thing. From what I can glean, our work is being used to train AIs (or something). Earnings appear to vary based on the project.

This is fine for me, as I'm retired at this point and dabbling in music as a hobby (more or less). I mean: an extra hundred bucks is an extra hundred bucks, right? Yippee! I can see, though, why someone who's more dependent on selling their stock media for income would be concerned. To my untrained eye, it appears as if our revenue is becoming less connected with our efforts. Let me try to explain...

When I started, the formula was remarkably simple and straightforward. You created a piece of media. You submitted it, priced it, attached metadata, got it approved, and hoped for the best. If someone licensed your work for their project, you got a fixed percentage of the revenue. The more, and more varied, work you uploaded, the better were your chances of attracting buyers and increasing your income. The percentages changed, but the basic mode of operation was stable until recently.

Then came the "race to the bottom," with slashing prices. A particular aspect of this was the introduction of the subscription model. Instead of buyers choosing and paying solely for your work, you shared in a pool of subscription revenue divided between all creators on the platform, based on how much of your work subscribers chose. Based on calculations I did several months ago; I estimate I was receiving between $3-$4 in revenue per item licensed by subscribers (somewhat less than my per item revenue on non-subscription work). However, the amount I'm seeing reported as subscription income for the current month suggests maybe a little more. I have no way to know for sure, since the numbers aren't really broken out.

Now comes the "dataset earnings." Let me stress again that I'm perfectly happy to have extra income dropped in my lap (Thank you!). But if I were more dependent on stock media income to put food on the table, pay the rent, etc., I would be concerned about the lack of transparency. Is this a market I could target somehow? Do I just have to be "lucky?" (What does that even mean, anymore!?) I guess I'm just concerned about the future...

I hope this little mini-rant makes some sense. If you've read to the end, I thank you for your patience and understanding.

B~)