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Feels like Getty has acquired all their big competitors.
by sexy_seedbox 2y ago
Feels like Getty has acquired all their big competitors.
- TMWNN 2y agoIs this a defensive move, against AI taking over the stock image market?
- elpocko 2y agoBoth of them already provide AI image generation themselves. https://www.shutterstock.com/ai-image-generator https://www.shutterstock.com/ai-image-generator https://www.gettyimages.com/ai/generation/about https://www.gettyimages.com/ai/generation/about
- Raed667 2y agoif you're going to get scraped anyway, might as well get paid
- animuchan 2y agoNot sure it'll help against AI eventually taking over. They can't compete on price, and the quality ceiling for "generic corporate announcement picture of diverse people smiling" is very reachable for the current gen AI.
- dylan604 2y agoJust don't show the hands of those people
- blitzar 2y agoThe defensive move here is the sellers cashing out while they still have a decent valuation and taking their money elsewhere.
- Ekaros 2y agoI would also consider consolidation as move to cut costs. If there is no more growth or it is taken by AI, that is the next step to get line go up.
- vintermann 2y agoProbably the plan is to sue big, and convince investors that's going to work.