RE: New Submission Limits
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...