But what do you think about AI coming into Stock Photography and Video?
It reminds me a bit of my programming career. During the heyday of the dot com boom of the 90s programmers could almost name their price. Mine worked out to about $36USD/hour which was more than needed by me to live and money piled up.
My work was all mostly on a per project basis over the net, while working from home. Then in the early 2000s Chinese programmers entered the market. Not only were they inexpensive at about $3/hour but they were damn good as well.
My feeling was why shouldn't they have a piece of this sweet pie and my focus became on projects that wanted someone on site or for hand holding. Eventually my career was finished off before retirement working for a corporation.
It seems different with AI in that it is not another human competing against you. Its a bit more like the automotive worker that got laid off when non-tax paying welding robots took their jobs. However in the case of AI, as you mentioned, that same tool that competes with you can be used to help you in your work. Already AI has been used by me with some python scripts. It was like having a programming mentor with me the whole time. It would even suggest actual code on request.
Quite a ramble. Bottom line is if one can use the technology for their own use it is not so disruptive as if the technology locks you out.
yeah for sure I agree with everything you said, and in this day and era, as it is and heading the way is heading, for the best and the worst, there is no stopping it at the moment. It is here and it is an adapt or jump out of the system and do something else. Because if people stay too resistant to it, they won't be able to compete and that is it. We have to adapt to the world around us and evolve with it so we can use the tools people create in the best way possible for everyone, now and in the future.