Another AI revolution. This time in a video.
Photographers and videographers will be forced into an area where you are filming something specific, a specific location or persons, and not an abstract palm tree and sea. The niche remains, but is narrowing. The main remaining niche is editorial photo and video.

Millions of people will lose their jobs in the next 5 years due to AI. Because companies need to maximize profits and there are problems with this now. Photographers, videographers, animators, etc. should be removed from the list of money recipients. There are too many photographers, but not enough plumbers.

look forward to using it

pps, instead of the movie line "release the kraken!" (forget which movie), it could be "release the army of eastindian spammers!" lol. oi vay. once they get word of that... you are probably going to have 10,000 "videos" of different angles of the same person eating an orange lol... and then posts asking what happened to their port because 10,000 videos of a person eating an orange didn't get approved...

Investors appear to think Sora is a threat to Adobe's business (I think in general, not specific to Adobe Stock). Market hasn't closed yet, but ADBE is down over $35 a share today

https://www.investors.com/news/technology/adbe-stock-falls-as-openai-invades-its-turf/

Shutterstock is down 5.44% too.  It's definitely because of this AI video generator news.  Many subscribers may just use the Sora to generate on their own.  And that's bad for us too.

Haha.

What is funny, is it says "Adobe stock fell to... 54 =>6.66<=."... ("On the stock market today, ADBE stock fell 7.4% to close at 546.66." (And also '5+4=9 = inverted 6', etc)) It's also funny it seems "only" adobe was the "target" of that "news attack". The big "investors" probably worked hard to make it that #.

If you didn't notice during convid, there was a lot of that deliberate repetition of the #6... as in "6 feet away, 6 ppl or less, 6 inch testing swab"... or "build back better"=> "6uild 6ack 6etter"... (the pyschopaths who organized that nonvirus "threat" are the same one's pushing the "ai" stuff, trying to convince people that they need to become welfare citizens of 'the state', so they become dependant (and more controllable) by a 3rd party).

Just funny the "news" (which almost all of it is propoganda to push a narrative, not useful informative) article said "that" was the share price that adobe was at...

Anyhoo...

a) OpenAI is built off of theft. Pure & simple. 100% theft.
b) It's not "ai". It's not "thinking" - it's sophisticated 'blending' of images.
c) "AI" has been around for 30-40+ years. The "news" just "decided" (at the request of the pyschopaths) that "2023" was the "year of AI". (Jan 2023 was when all the "news" outlets parroted the same thing).
d) Many people are too lazy or think - it is still "work" to even type in "two golden retrievers doing a podcast" let alone thing of it. Just because it "may" become an available tool - doesn't mean it will take everything. But - the "shots" were designed to dumb people down even further (sad for anyone that took them, because they most likely have health side effects now, was ridiculous that many ppl voluntarily suffocated themselves with 'mathsks', some even still doing it now for 3+ years, crazy).
e) Part of a push for the "digitalid" (i.e., id2020.org) for your "health & safety" (which, of course, is neither for your health, nor your safety - it's all about control/greed/hording/tracking/surveillance/etc).

Anyhoo.

Interesting/different times.

Have you seen this?
https://openai.com/sora

That's really devastating... much more than midjourney for photographers in my opinion

yep and waiting for https://stability.ai/stable-video 

Everybody has mobile phones with excellent image and video quality.

And still people buy our images instead of making their own.

Mobile phones certainly don't have "excellent image quality" compared to a real camera. There are worlds between these qualities.

Ai photos are very successful and popular, this will happen with the video too, just watch.

I don't doubt that.

I completely agree that most customers don't care. 99% of my photos end up being used in small size online. No one can really tell the difference whether it's an AI photo, a full frame camera photo or a mobile photo in small size.

Just wanted to correct a wrong statement. Mobile phone and full frame camera photo quality is worlds apart. Might not be what customers care about, but it still is what it is.

I can already see some weird glitches in their homepage video examples: legs/feet that switch position in passing pose, horses walking funny, cars that pass shadows on the ground but the shade doesn't translate well to the top of the vehicle...

It looks good at first glance, but upon closer inspection, lots of things are 'off'. Of course it's just a matter of time before those errors are ironed out, but currently it wouldn't be usable in commercial projects. Besides, some projects require very specific setups, car types, clothing, accessories and authentic settings, and you can't get away with AI that inaccurately makes things up on the fly.

The big thing people need to remember is essentially these "ai" tools are:
(a) based off of massive theft
(b) "blend" images together
(c) use tricks/algorithms to "blend" things (i.e., applying a "physics" algorithm to make it appear "wind" is in someone's hair)

If it doesn't have something to steal from, and a special-purpose algorithm hasn't been applied to it - it can't do it.
I.e.,

a) Many "walking" videos, so "easy" to steal/replicate that.
b) Very few videos of say someone eating an apple with their hand by their mouth, then spitting out the apple core, so it couldn't do that, because it didn't have anything to steal from. It could - say - have an "apple object" that it brings "up" to the mouth - and it could say make it look like someone was "chewing" - but to actually see the bits of apple being eaten, then spitting out say apple seeds, etc - it can't - because it didn't have anything to steal form - and the current "patch" algorithms don't account for that.

I can already see some weird glitches in their homepage video examples: legs/feet that switch position in passing pose, horses walking funny, cars that pass shadows on the ground but the shade doesn't translate well to the top of the vehicle...

...Also, their "adorable dalmation looks through a window on a building on the ground floor" video doesn't actually show a Dalmatian dog. Dalmatians don't have black eye masks.

The big thing people need to remember is essentially these "ai" tools are:
(a) based off of massive theft

A big thing you might remember is, that's a personal opinion, the courts and laws haven't decided that, yet.