AI Stock Images and Videos
Is AI images and videos really killing stock photography and human created videos?
You will read and hear a lot of different opinions about it from many different perspectives, some say yes, others say no. What do you think?
Personally, I think AI will not be killing real photography and video, not for a long time at least. We never know about the future.
Now, that doesn't mean it is not changing the markets and how everything works. Photographers and videographers, for sure will have to adapt to the fact that AI is here and it is being adopted and embraced by many and there is no way to stop it.
I think AI tools can be amazing and can be used in so many ways to make our life easier, but AI still can't create perfect images and as per now, they will always be recreations using REAL photos, videos and information online.
Whitout those, AI can't create images.
Either you agree with it or not, if you think it is a bad thing, you have to accept that it is here and a lot of the micro stock agencies are embracing it and using it, so if you are doing stock photography and video you need to take that in account and work on your stock having that in mind. Because otherwise, others that will do that, probably will have a leg up on you.
I don't use a lot of AI tools, regularly, specially when it comes to creating or editing images. But that doesn't mean I am not considering it. There are certain types of images that AI is able to create quicker and honestly better than we humans can do it nowadays, specially stuff that is more abstract.
Because so many amazing artists in the past have added their works online and now AI, quickly can get inspired by all of them and take the best from all of them to create something in minutes that will probably take way longer for us to do.
So no, I don't think AI is here to substitute stock photography and video. I do believe it will make it more competitive and it will make it harder for photographers, but if we adapt and find what AI can't do, then we will be okay.
Because AI will never be human, that they can't take away from us. So when we keep our humanity in our images, AI will not be able to reproduce that. As I said, at least, not for a long while.
But what do you think about AI coming into Stock Photography and Video?
The Microstock sites I am on:
Shutterstock
Pond5
Dreamstime
Depositphotos
500px
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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.