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Regardless of what people think as impressive, or creative, or sentient, or intelligent, there is one thing that cannot be disputed: stock photos have value in

Regardless of what people think as impressive, or creative, or sentient, or intelligent, there is one thing that cannot be disputed: stock photos have value in the current economy. There are people being paid to produce these stock photos. And it now looks like AI can do it for cheaper. That's the most important thing to realize imo, is that the value of human production is getting lower and lower relative to AI.

NoPicklez 4y ago
And think about on demand ML, where a stock photo on a website might change based on characteristics it knows of you. Let's say a website knows you love chocolate cake, well the website is now going to show you a chocolate cake instead and has generated a unique image of that for you.
Smoosh 4y ago
I think the real value is that it can combine items. I can easily find a stock image of a cake. I can probably find a stock image of a circular saw. But a decent stock image of a cake in the shape of a circular saw maybe doesn't exist anywhere. But this could generate several for me to choose from. And then there's the "in the style of Salvador Dali" aspect.
- jjeaff 4y ago
  Even for something simple like a cake, if you want to use that image and perhaps license it exclusively so no one else has it, that would cost you a lot more than an ML generated cake photo. Even just an image of whatever with a very specific color would be a huge benefit for designers. Because almost all stock photography is trying to appeal to the broadest audience as possible, they all have a similar muted pallette of colors. Which makes stock photography kind of look like stock photography. ML generated images or even ML manipulated images could change that.
- krater23 4y ago
  Correct. But I just see simplistic pictures that could just be copied from any stock. And maybee they are(from the software). They don't demnostrated what you say. It would be really impressive to see exactly this!
fancymcpoopoo 4y ago
"AI" can do this for cheaper because it the model is built based on databases of stolen material. did they get any permission from all the people involved in creating the reference photos?

NoPicklez 4y ago

And think about on demand ML, where a stock photo on a website might change based on characteristics it knows of you. Let's say a website knows you love chocolate cake, well the website is now going to show you a chocolate cake instead and has generated a unique image of that for you.

Smoosh 4y ago

I think the real value is that it can combine items. I can easily find a stock image of a cake. I can probably find a stock image of a circular saw. But a decent stock image of a cake in the shape of a circular saw maybe doesn't exist anywhere. But this could generate several for me to choose from. And then there's the "in the style of Salvador Dali" aspect.

jjeaff 4y ago
Even for something simple like a cake, if you want to use that image and perhaps license it exclusively so no one else has it, that would cost you a lot more than an ML generated cake photo. Even just an image of whatever with a very specific color would be a huge benefit for designers. Because almost all stock photography is trying to appeal to the broadest audience as possible, they all have a similar muted pallette of colors. Which makes stock photography kind of look like stock photography. ML generated images or even ML manipulated images could change that.
krater23 4y ago
Correct. But I just see simplistic pictures that could just be copied from any stock. And maybee they are(from the software). They don't demnostrated what you say. It would be really impressive to see exactly this!

fancymcpoopoo 4y ago

"AI" can do this for cheaper because it the model is built based on databases of stolen material. did they get any permission from all the people involved in creating the reference photos?