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 th

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.