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Microstock Photography Forum - General => AI Generated Stock Photography => Topic started by: Andrej.S. on February 02, 2024, 04:23

Title: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: Andrej.S. on February 02, 2024, 04:23
Have seen today several thousands of offers for midjourney prompts.
https://www.etsy.com/de/search?q=midjourney%20prompts&ref=search_bar (https://www.etsy.com/de/search?q=midjourney%20prompts&ref=search_bar)

Who has been eating people's brains?
I mean, these people's thinking can't be any more short-term than that, can it?
So, if you're selling same stuff there, stop doing this shi*!

I really hope that some one will kick in Midjourney nuts.
This platform has become really a pest plague.

No wonder freelance digital artists are afraid of their living income. It's like they say: It is not AI that will replace you, but a human with AI without any further skills.
Title: Re: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: cascoly on February 02, 2024, 14:52
or look at the many books about ChatGPT & Midjourney - i have kindle unlimited so can get many of these for free - almost all are generic whaledreck. the only substantive ChatGPT book was stephen Wolfram's (mathematica)
Title: Re: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: Uncle Pete on February 04, 2024, 12:12
I'm surprised that anyone would buy a download of prompts. It just seems they are already done, and anyone can copy or use them. What's the value in making something that's already made and can be duplicated by anyone, with the same prompt? AKA, Sliced Tomato isolated on white.
Title: Re: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: cascoly on February 04, 2024, 14:14
I'm surprised that anyone would buy a download of prompts. It just seems they are already done, and anyone can copy or use them. What's the value in making something that's already made and can be duplicated by anyone, with the same prompt? AKA, Sliced Tomato isolated on white.

rather than the text part, looking at the commands (stylize, aspect, etc) help create the look you want - but these are easily available on searches. 
Title: Re: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: Uncle Pete on February 05, 2024, 15:29
I'm surprised that anyone would buy a download of prompts. It just seems they are already done, and anyone can copy or use them. What's the value in making something that's already made and can be duplicated by anyone, with the same prompt? AKA, Sliced Tomato isolated on white.

rather than the text part, looking at the commands (stylize, aspect, etc) help create the look you want - but these are easily available on searches.

So are the public domain image sets that some people sell on Etsy. I guess it's buyer beware, if the buyer is dumb enough to pay for something that's already free, someplace else? We could only do worse, buying something at Amazon, for double the price at eBay or off the shelf?
Title: Re: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: Mifornia on February 07, 2024, 04:00
There are a lot of people wo are selling 120 images of dogs for $1.50 and seems to be making a lot of sales. Those images are not processed well, but just rendering them, converting them , zipping and uploading + customer emails - scaring me off from trying it myself.

Anyone tried it successfully?
Title: Re: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: Uncle Pete on February 07, 2024, 13:27
There are a lot of people wo are selling 120 images of dogs for $1.50 and seems to be making a lot of sales. Those images are not processed well, but just rendering them, converting them , zipping and uploading + customer emails - scaring me off from trying it myself.

Anyone tried it successfully?

I haven't but I have seen just what you say and they list sales, and they appear to be successful. I see sets that are nothing but a large selection of right click images, zipped and then sold for a low price. No I haven't done that and I won't.

I tried to make some high quality sets of specialized images, high resolution. No market. That's the way it goes. Crafters and scrapbook people just want bits and pieces, not high res, high quality.
Title: Re: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: cascoly on February 07, 2024, 20:05
There are a lot of people wo are selling 120 images of dogs for $1.50 and seems to be making a lot of sales. Those images are not processed well, but just rendering them, converting them , zipping and uploading + customer emails - scaring me off from trying it myself.

Anyone tried it successfully?

I haven't but I have seen just what you say and they list sales, and they appear to be successful. I see sets that are nothing but a large selection of right click images, zipped and then sold for a low price. No I haven't done that and I won't.

I tried to make some high quality sets of specialized images, high resolution. No market. That's the way it goes. Crafters and scrapbook people just want bits and pieces, not high res, high quality.

since i already have galleries on my blog , and collections in FAA, all meta-dataed, i'll try this out -all i need to do is resize to 640-400 n& list on my dormant etsy acct - it's worth a try & will report on the monstrous sales i get
Title: Re: Someone currently selling prompts on Etsy? Stop this Shi*!
Post by: Mifornia on February 15, 2024, 13:18
There are a lot of people wo are selling 120 images of dogs for $1.50 and seems to be making a lot of sales. Those images are not processed well, but just rendering them, converting them , zipping and uploading + customer emails - scaring me off from trying it myself.

Anyone tried it successfully?

I haven't but I have seen just what you say and they list sales, and they appear to be successful. I see sets that are nothing but a large selection of right click images, zipped and then sold for a low price. No I haven't done that and I won't.

I tried to make some high quality sets of specialized images, high resolution. No market. That's the way it goes. Crafters and scrapbook people just want bits and pieces, not high res, high quality.

since i already have galleries on my blog , and collections in FAA, all meta-dataed, i'll try this out -all i need to do is resize to 640-400 n& list on my dormant etsy acct - it's worth a try & will report on the monstrous sales i get

That would be a fun experiment!!!

How is FAA compared to ADobe Stock? I heard that it’s much better, but I didn’t upload anything yet.