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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 ben_w »

starttoaster wrote: post #218
thuuuomas wrote: post #184

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Frame this - iconic. How many people would you estimate are deserving of your judgement? “Billions”?

I, like most people here (I presume), do not murder. But can you truly say you have never met a person, or got to know them really well, and thought, “this person doesn’t deserve oxygen”? I think most can at least somewhat empathize with having that thought.

As a few people have said that kind of thing aimed against me, I'm rather more inclined to push back against such vitriol.

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

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Post by CatWChainsaw »

bheadmaster wrote: post #158
cnity wrote: post #149

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If you truly believed this you would never turn off a computer.

There are many humans I'd turn off if it wasn't illegal. And even more of them I'd turn off only if I knew with certainty that I could turn them back on whenever I want, and that their memories would simply continue where they stopped.

Blatantly stating this on top of your other contributions to this thread. I hope you never wonder why "techbros" have the reviled reputation they do, as you're the epitome of it.

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

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Post by starttoaster »

ben_w wrote: post #221
starttoaster wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, like most people here (I presume), do not murder. But can you truly say you have never met a person, or got to know them really well, and thought, “this person doesn’t deserve oxygen”? I think most can at least somewhat empathize with having that thought.

As a few people have said that kind of thing aimed against me, I'm rather more inclined to push back against such vitriol.

I disagree that this is vitriol, and would rather argue it’s natural to have dark thoughts that one does not actually act on. We’re all just a bunch of animals that developed strong moral codes and varying abilities to process complex thoughts.

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

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Post by bheadmaster »

CatWChainsaw wrote: post #222
bheadmaster wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many humans I'd turn off if it wasn't illegal. And even more of them I'd turn off only if I knew with certainty that I could turn them back on whenever I want, and that their memories would simply continue where they stopped.

Blatantly stating this on top of your other contributions to this thread. I hope you never wonder why "techbros" have the reviled reputation they do, as you're the epitome of it.

What did you do in your past that you have to virtue signal so hard to correct it in your head?

Every person is capable of murder, that's why murder happens. It's a natural thing, in nature, creatures die and kill every day. The fact that you consider yourself so outstanding and morally erect that you are completely sure that you'd never kill a person and have never wished to only tells me that its likely you had never had any real introspective thought in your life.

    Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

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

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Post by CatWChainsaw »

bheadmaster wrote: post #224
CatWChainsaw wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blatantly stating this on top of your other contributions to this thread. I hope you never wonder why "techbros" have the reviled reputation they do, as you're the epitome of it.

What did you do in your past that you have to virtue signal so hard to correct it in your head? Every person is capable of murder, that's why murder happens. It's a natural thing, in nature, creatures die and kill every day. The fact that you consider yourself so outstanding and morally erect that you are completely sure that you'd never kill a person and have never wished to only tells me that its likely you had nev…

Yeah, I wasn't referring to the part you think I was referring to.

>And even more of them I'd turn off only if I knew with certainty that I could turn them back on whenever I want, and that their memories would simply continue where they stopped.

Certainly a strain of solipsism I've never heard before now, but still pathological.

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

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Post by bheadmaster »

CatWChainsaw wrote: post #225
bheadmaster wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you do in your past that you have to virtue signal so hard to correct it in your head? Every person is capable of murder, that's why murder happens. It's a natural thing, in nature, creatures die and kill every day. The fact that you consider yourself so outstanding and morally erect that you are completely sure that you'd never kill a person and have never wished to only tells me that its likely you had nev…

Yeah, I wasn't referring to the part you think I was referring to. > And even more of them I'd turn off only if I knew with certainty that I could turn them back on whenever I want, and that their memories would simply continue where they stopped. Certainly a strain of solipsism I've never heard before now, but still pathological.

An armchair psychologist's opinion on my "pathology" over an internet comment means very little to me, sorry.

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

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Post by kortilla »

jachee wrote: post #173
kortilla wrote: post #166

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This is incorrect. I was a photographer and trained very little looking at other pictures. There are a few guidelines about framing I got from both written rules and a few examples, but those examples were never of things I took pictures of. I took pictures of a much wider variety of things than I looked at pictures of. Instagram and other sources of millions of pictures did not exist and I was perfectly capable of t…

It may not have been conscious, proactive “training”, but before you ever picked up your camera you’d been exposed (pardon the pun) to thousands (at least) of photos others had taken. That unconscious exposure still counts, even if you don’t think of it as training.

No I hadn’t. I don’t think you understood how infrequently you would come across photos of things like rare wildlife and remote wilderness locations in the 80s.

You’re missing the forest for the trees here. The point is that a photographer doesn’t learn how to produce pictures of a screwdriver by looking at pictures of a screwdriver. A photographer learns how to take pictures generally and then can instantly be capable of producing pictures of far more objects than he/she has ever observed.

Generative AI is not capable of that because it’s not operating a camera in reality.

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

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Post by bheadmaster »

ben_w wrote: post #221
starttoaster wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, like most people here (I presume), do not murder. But can you truly say you have never met a person, or got to know them really well, and thought, “this person doesn’t deserve oxygen”? I think most can at least somewhat empathize with having that thought.

As a few people have said that kind of thing aimed against me, I'm rather more inclined to push back against such vitriol.

Well, if you've never wished for the death of the people that wish you death, there might be something wrong with your self-preservation instinct.

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

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Post by ben_w »

bheadmaster wrote: post #228
ben_w wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a few people have said that kind of thing aimed against me, I'm rather more inclined to push back against such vitriol.

Well, if you've never wished for the death of the people that wish you death, there might be something wrong with your self-preservation instinct.

There's an "or" in "fight or flight".

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

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Post by bheadmaster »

ben_w wrote: post #229
bheadmaster wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, if you've never wished for the death of the people that wish you death, there might be something wrong with your self-preservation instinct.

There's an "or" in "fight or flight".

There are also wishes you never actually act on.
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