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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

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Post by pdntspa »

amelius wrote: post #124
mmcconnell1618 wrote: post #108

If you haven't tried to purchase a stock photo recently, it is incredibly difficult. I can order same day delivery of physical goods from Amazon much faster than trying to buy a single stock photo. All of the services are subscriptions now and they have dark UX patterns to convince you the only way to get the images is to sign up for an annual plan that will auto-renew. In comparison, typing a prompt into a generativ…

You say dark patterns, but the true dark behavior is AI copying (^H^H learning from) all those stock photos and giving them away for free.

It's truly evil that aspiring artists go to museums, copying (^H^H learning from) the masters

Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

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Post by bfuller »

ksaj wrote: post #2

I 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.

I am extremely skeptical when people say AI will replace all photographers, no one wants AI generated wedding photos. However, it has certainly replaced my use of stock photos.

Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

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Post by WalterBright »

aloisdg wrote: post #63
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trajectory of ML appears to point towards massive transfer of wealth to capital owners and impoverishment of the working classes. We need to find a way to distribute the benefits of such developments.

Maybe there is something to do about workers owning their own means of production.

Start your own business and you'll own that means of production.

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Post by WalterBright »

dragonwriter wrote: post #111
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trajectory of ML appears to point towards massive transfer of wealth to capital owners and impoverishment of the working classes. We need to find a way to distribute the benefits of such developments.

> The trajectory of ML appears to point towards massive transfer of wealth to capital owners and impoverishment of the working classes. That’s the natural end of capitalism , as has been noted literally since the word “capitalism” waa coined for it (largely, for that reason.) It is end to which every tool and technology is put under that system, and has nothing to do with the particular technology and everything to d…

> That’s the natural end of capitalism

No evidence of that.

Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

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Post by mikojan »

pdntspa wrote: post #131
amelius wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say dark patterns, but the true dark behavior is AI copying (^H^H learning from) all those stock photos and giving them away for free.

It's truly evil that aspiring artists go to museums, copying (^H^H learning from) the masters

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Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

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Post by ChatGTP »

harry8 wrote: post #12
stingraycharles wrote: post #5

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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.

lol no they're not..wow

Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

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Post by WalterBright »

e12e wrote: post #95
wnkrshm wrote: post #28

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The difference is that now only the owner of a machine profits where before lots of individuals profited. More power to the owners, I guess.

> The difference is that now only the owner of a machine profits where before lots of individuals profited. Hello post-industrial/ai/ml capitalism. This development will do to designers, programmers, support what the industrial revolution did to cobblers and weavers ...

> support what the industrial revolution did to cobblers and weavers

Which made cheap shoes and clothes available to everybody.

If you want to buy a tailor made shirt, it'll cost you at least $500. And that's still with machine made cloth. What do you think it would cost if the cloth was made by hand by a weaver?

Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

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Post by giuliomagnifico »

ksaj wrote: post #65
giuliomagnifico wrote: post #6

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I don’t think AI will replace stock photos because AIs need some photos to build the AI photos. Probably AI will help photographers to cut costs, I mean by taking less “real” photos and using the AI to generate other similar variants, example: “Photos Used to Generate AI Images for Client So Photographer Never Shoots Again Photos Used to Generate AI Images for Client So Photographer Never Shoots Again” https://petapi…

What do you think of this article. https://hackaday.com/2023/06/02/ai-camera-imagines-a-photo-o... It's not exactly what you've said, but it itches a scratch from around there.

It’s a very cool project but totally different from taking only one real photo, edit it with an AI and sell the created AI photo variants to other clients.

Re: Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

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Post by ghaff »

indymike wrote: post #115
mmcconnell1618 wrote: post #108

If you haven't tried to purchase a stock photo recently, it is incredibly difficult. I can order same day delivery of physical goods from Amazon much faster than trying to buy a single stock photo. All of the services are subscriptions now and they have dark UX patterns to convince you the only way to get the images is to sign up for an annual plan that will auto-renew. In comparison, typing a prompt into a generativ…

I'm not sure that is the case... I've used Shutterstock and Adobe Stock in the past two weeks and both times, it took about 3-4 minutes to find something I liked, and 10 sec (subscription) to 1 minute (non subscription) go through the license/payment cycle. > All of the services are subscriptions now and they have dark UX patterns They do. I have a subscription to one of the services, and it's just super easy and I u…

>I'm not sure there's a huge market for licensing an image occasionally.

Maybe for an iconic newsworthy photo.

But, yeah. As an individual, paying $50 or whatever for a photo for a book cover or something like that would be a rather rare thing. And if I'm a company who needs a steady stream of stock for articles, corporate presentations, etc., I'm almost certainly going to have a subscription if only for the convenience of not having to get individual purchases approved all the time.

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