Create photos and designs for AI training projects (Wirestock)
Wirestock now sells creators' work to AI labs as training data instead of stock sites. Fill out your skills profile, pass an unpaid test task for a project type (photography, video, graphic design, animation, photo restoration), then get paid per approved submission when a matching brief comes up. Separately, approved uploads go into always-on 'commission based' collections that AI buyers license, and you get a cut every time one is licensed. Read each brief closely; rejected work isn't paid.
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- How it works
- Wirestock now sells creators' work to AI labs as training data instead of stock sites. Fill out your skills profile, pass an unpaid test task for a project type (photography, video, graphic design, animation, photo restoration), then get paid per approved submission when a matching brief comes up. Separately, approved uploads go into always-on 'commission based' collections that AI buyers license, and you get a cut every time one is licensed. Read each brief closely; rejected work isn't paid.
- Tools
- Wirestock, Camera or phone, Photoshop or Lightroom. Tool links
- Startup costs
- $0 (free to join; you need your own camera and editing tools)
- Reported earnings
- Wirestock pays a fixed rate per approved asset on brief-based projects and 50% commission on each license of your content, paid monthly; it says it has paid creators over $20M. One October 2026 photo-restoration brief paid $5 per approved set of two restored images. Per-asset rates vary by project.Commission rate and payout total from Wirestock's own pages; the $5 rate is quoted from Wirestock's project guidelines.Entry last updated · What the labels mean
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