This is how a company whose failing business model collapsing fast would act. I never liked Stock photo sites since their inception - they always followed dark

This is how a company whose failing business model collapsing fast would act. I never liked Stock photo sites since their inception - they always followed dark patterns, spammed the entire search results with keywords that had nothing to do with them. If you searched for something "free" they would show you images of something that was NOT free. But hey, "royalty free" is close enough, I guess? They went on to sue Google Images that allowed the spirit of open web - where you could simply right click and save any image - from doing so. And now that AI can pretty much produce stellar quality images with just a single line of text input, they don't have anything else to do other than drag everyone into litigation. I'm a photographer myself (Sony A7C2/24-70mm G-Master) and I have learned to accept that this is going to be the future. And though there will always be a market for real photographers, AI will take over bulk of our jobs. And the programmer in me who spent ages trying to find the perfect background image for my website says that's not really a bad thing.