New Submission Limits
I just got this email by Adobe Stock.
Now let me admit that in the last few months I have submitted less stock photos to Adobe.
For months, I've been seeing decreasing sales, no matter the fact that my portfolio increases in size and diversity.
I really hope this announcement has something to do with the AI generated (I was going to right "stuff" here, but let's be honest) shit that some people are shoveling into Adobe Stock database.
I guess it's not their fault, given it is much easier this way, instead of spending hours to photograph something, then post-process and so on.
Adobe allows that.
I am 100% sure it is not fair to mix human and AI generated content into the same database.
Other stock photo agencies have distinctive separation between normal and AI generated.
Some agencies do not all generated content at all and I am more inclined to believe these are the agencies that will survive and thrive in this line of business, from the people to the people.
The future will tell though...
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Agencies that don't allow submission of AI-generated photos are actually doing this to sell their own AI application to their clients, I don't know which is worse in this case. And I really don't know anymore which agency is good and if there is one at all. I think in a nutshell that humanity is going downhill at a breakneck pace and we ourselves will help and contribute to our own faster destruction, the people who use AI don't realize this. Maybe that was the plan. When you think about the irony of the 21st century... Man is the creature that is primarily distinguished by the ability to think and create. And it is precisely this creativity that will now be taken away from him and replaced by a machine. To prove once and for all that man is replaceable and no longer needed.
I think they can safely release the next virus now. Everything is fine.
I am perfectly fine with letting someone manipulate my photographs with AI for their purposes if they pay for the licensing. Of course, if that compliments the picture and not change its purpose or sentiment, or story.
But I suspect this would be out of anyone's control once it changes sides ;)
I think you're slightly wrong - those in power and the richest, they don't like the idea of masses being clever and thinking :))) Let's have a paid service that will replace thinking! :)
I read a great news article yesterday about a trading company that replaced all customer support with AI and that saved them $16M. Then in one year, their profits decreased much more because customers were pissed by the rigid AI support.
Now they are hiring human customer support back! :)))))
I consider myself quite ignorant when it comes to technology, as well as AI, but prove me wrong that the generated photos are based on a combination of real ones. As are the texts that the machine creates, the answers it gives to questions, and so on. So when they use your photos, you may never know that. Even if they give you some cents in return.
I think copyright law is becoming very diluted, even disappearing here. And perhaps that's exactly the point. A collective work, a collective product created by many individuals, will be presented as a creation of a machine, displacing each individual masterpiece, implying that man with his own individual creations is no longer needed.
My photos have been stolen and misused so many times, nothing new under the sun 🌞🌄
You're right, though, AI generated images are just a refined mashup from existing ones...
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