How about promoting human-created imagery by showing off "epic AI fail" pictures?

There are lots of examples, particularly where AI tries to show the real world. Case in point, some pictures of beach loungers (that I can't see being used 'cause who'd want to look like an idiot?)

Over 14,000 images in the regular collection where the beach loungers are set up in a more useful and enjoyable arrangement - facing the ocean and where you can actually get into the chairs!



I was told that there are APIs which accept prompts and generate image results, so it's not necessary even to look at what you created if you're trying to spew out lots of images - which might explain submitting such bizarre images. It doesn't explain why they were accepted though....

A long time ago, another stock photographer who had lots of great images showing construction & electrical work faced lots of cheesy-fake stock images of construction (pretty women posing with a drill in a hardhat sort of thing). She started appending an "authentic" note to all her titles: "All work being performed according with industry code and safety standards." was one example. "Authentic construction worker on actual construction site." another example.

I'm not sure what the right phrase is - human-created from a real-world setting? - but I found a recent example where two AI copycats had lifted my image title verbatim to create AI "look-alikes". Their identical titles have "Generative AI" appended. Both AI  image numbers are more recent than mine.

The end results were pretty much useless, so I think that's why my image continues to sell, but I may append "This is my actual basement" to the title of mine!

My title: "Unfinished basement mechanical room with tankless water heater, storage tank, plumbing and heating systems"
My image (click on the thumbs to see the detail page)


The least bizarre of the AI copies

How about promoting human-created imagery by showing off "epic AI fail" pictures?

There are lots of examples, particularly where AI tries to show the real world. Case in point, some pictures of beach loungers (that I can't see being used 'cause who'd want to look like an idiot?)

Over 14,000 images in the regular collection where the beach loungers are set up in a more useful and enjoyable arrangement - facing the ocean and where you can actually get into the chairs!

 
Well, I love Adobe, but to be honest it's simply unbelievable how so many failed images has been approved