There is a certain class of images that will be largely unaffected - anything where authenticity matters. Such as a space walk photo from the ISS, a celebration moment in the Olympics, presidential speech, met gala fashion shots etc. and the authentic non generative photos could go up in value as photographers who do not have access to those moments either start to resort to AI or to fall out of the competition.
Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
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Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
#12I had to put together a presentation that was somewhat graphic-heavy. I used Dall-e 2, and the ability to get things so tailored to what I needed, so quickly, was absolutely worth it. I don't know if AI will replace stock photography, but I wouldn't bet against it. The ability to charge a high price for stock photography is over though.
And the sad thing is that these models are most likely trained upon most of these stock photos to begin with. I can understand the frustration of the industry.
The photographers who took those stock photos also trained on stock photos.
Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
#13I had to put together a presentation that was somewhat graphic-heavy. I used Dall-e 2, and the ability to get things so tailored to what I needed, so quickly, was absolutely worth it. I don't know if AI will replace stock photography, but I wouldn't bet against it. The ability to charge a high price for stock photography is over though.
Has been for a long time from what I have gathered. Stock photography has been a very hard way to make money as a photographer for awhile based on the forums I read.
Especially companies like Getty Images being so predatory towards photographers
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#14There is a certain class of images that will be largely unaffected - anything where authenticity matters. Such as a space walk photo from the ISS, a celebration moment in the Olympics, presidential speech, met gala fashion shots etc. and the authentic non generative photos could go up in value as photographers who do not have access to those moments either start to resort to AI or to fall out of the competition.
why do you think that?
Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
#15Like it or not, it's here like CGI in movies bestsellers. I don't envy artists, most of them will have to rethink their plans and switch to graphics or web designers, or something similar. Not sure who will be next. Probably GPT will take over virtual bookshelves on Amazon. Mandatory "AI generated" mark may help a bit. I will not waste my time reading it.
I think we should expect a flood of "masterpieces" in different channels. Including news reports, scientific papers. The solution could be closed humans only groups. But, like in chess today, it's hard to say who is cheating.
Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
#16I had to put together a presentation that was somewhat graphic-heavy. I used Dall-e 2, and the ability to get things so tailored to what I needed, so quickly, was absolutely worth it. I don't know if AI will replace stock photography, but I wouldn't bet against it. The ability to charge a high price for stock photography is over though.
And the sad thing is that these models are most likely trained upon most of these stock photos to begin with. I can understand the frustration of the industry.
OpenAI partnered with Shutterstock.
So it's not most likely, it has been publicly announced that a part of DallE training dataset was Shutterstock.
Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
#17Like it or not, it's here like CGI in movies bestsellers. I don't envy artists, most of them will have to rethink their plans and switch to graphics or web designers, or something similar. Not sure who will be next. Probably GPT will take over virtual bookshelves on Amazon. Mandatory "AI generated" mark may help a bit. I will not waste my time reading it. I think we should expect a flood of "masterpieces" in differen…
Dunno, 'brand name' writers of airport novels have been forever accused of having ghost-written their novels, I think AI will allow writers of lesser budgets to also get help in writing their novels. Or who knows, even the 'King'-s of the world will use AI to fill out their chapters.
Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
#18The increase in income during a recession is because people are choosing stock instead of going and doing a photo shoot themselves.
Stock is still the easiest, safest, cheapest option - VS your own shoot.
So I don’t think that means it’s future proof in any way.
On the contrary it means that the same cost-saving decision will be made again and there’ll be a move to AI images when they are slightly more mature - ie when the legalities of copyright have been fully figured out.
(I work at a big ad agency and I know the copyright thing is currently a massive drag on potential usage)
Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish MidJourney had some decent competition. Dall-E hasn’t improved since it was released, and the other good models like Google’s Imagen weren’t made public…
What's behind MidJourney, and how has it not been matched/defeated? There's a lot of interest in the space and money to be made, and MidJourney proves that quality results are possible. Is it because of the sheer costs or a secret sauce?
They combine multiple custom algorithms that are designed to run on high-RAM (>24GB) GPUs. And, they incorporate a lot of user-provided feedback into the training of new models. If you have more time on your hands than cash, you can get some free generation credit by rating images.
Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
#20There is a lot of potential for aspiring photographers in creating (and licensing) photo libraries for the specific purpose of AI training.
Where previously you'd take 100 photos to choose the perfect one, now you'd include all of them, with labels that describe their quality or deficiences (which you do anyway as you curate the photos you took). This makes almost every shot the money shot.
Less glamorous for sure, a lot less money per photo, but more volume for virtually the same amount of work. And you can always treat the really unique and special photos as today and not include them in your AI dataset.
Combine that with the fact that a photo (and photoshop) pro can produce better results with AI image generation (because they can guide them better than people who don't know what they're doing), and the future doesn't look so bleak.