Curious if actually original people with a similar face exist somewhere in the world.
I would love AI to make an artificial exact free "copy" of my face and some brand to use it,
especially on a race against Aids or Racism or Fascism or a election campaign.

Guess I would never had to work for money for the rest of my life!

Also wonder what this means for agencies. This Icons8 company is giving images away for now. Once it's improved they will start monetizing it. So these AI companies could replace agencies. Or agencies will adopt AI and make their own images so there could be a mix of images created by AI where the agency keeps 100% and types of photos that only a person could create.

Interesting times.

Also wonder what this means for agencies. This Icons8 company is giving images away for now. Once it's improved they will start monetizing it. So these AI companies could replace agencies. Or agencies will adopt AI and make their own images so there could be a mix of images created by AI where the agency keeps 100% and types of photos that only a person could create.

Interesting times.

This kind of thing already exists. (Look at any of the on demand video services).

Basically what I see happening is this.

a) Icons8 isn't the first company to do this. But as more of these 'types' of companies get free publicity (= free advertising =sales for products/services they sell) - more and more companies will start releasing these 'image' packs.
b) There will be a HUGE oversupply of these types of images. Literally hundreds of millions.
c) Yes, consumers will 'initially' flock to these 'free' images. But then because 'everyone' is using them, it will look stale/repetitive/etc, and companies/agencies/etc will want a more 'natural' look (aka photographers taking pictures). So then you'll see a spike in 'real' photographers pictures.
d) The cycle will be iterative (i.e., the "ai" companies will then tweek their algorithms to look more 'natural' and the whole cycle repeats itself). Spike again, repeat, spike again, repeat, etc, etc.

Eventually a bit of an equilibrium will be achieved, with very inexpensive photos (same with videos).

BUT - there will still be artists (photographers) that flourish - because this will evolve more into an 'artists' type of world. I.e., photographers who use a combination of both their own photography and "ai" items (i.e., landscapes/backdrops/some generated content) - and people will purchase from them just because they like the look/feel of that artist.

And yes - eventually - algorithsm will then start to steal/replicate/artists 'look & feel' - but that is a little bit of a ways down the road.

Are they truly "computer generated" if they were trained on real faces? My camera could be looked at as a computer that "computer generates" a face when I point it at someone and press the shutter  button.

Yes, this is not true AI. This is simply morphing images.

In some ways an academic discussion though - as the result is still 100,000 images to 'flood' the market. (And copycats coming soon, so more likely 30-40 million images).

But still - for the time being - still a demand for regular photography.

In addition to these, there is also the technology called 'deep fakes', where you replace someone's face in video, apparently that tech is already 'mildly' passable for realism. But they think within a few years it will be impossible to tell it is a fake. And the tech is also mildly passable for faking other people's voices, over time that tech will get much better too.

Yes for sure at some point the agencies will have millions of realistic images and videos that is entirely generated by software. Why wouldn't they? Once the technology is figure out, the cost of production falls to the mere costs of electricity.

Though if you think about it some more, at some point you might not even need stock photo websites. Why not just have a camera look at you, you do the pose you want, and the software recognize what you are doing and generates a photo of a beautiful person doing your pose, and you have the image you want.   

The More accurate faces you can produce, more model release the agency Will ask for 

Also, there Will clearly soon options to modify faces and human expressions, but you Always Need to think WHAT to do with this.

It's not only quantity of different faces expressions, it's more about what do you think can sell we'll, IMHO

I saw this recently on a shopping site, the "model" was clearly not an actual human. For fast fashion they'll do anything to cut costs.

appalling world....what a mess of world are creating those " genius " of electronic...a world in the hands of nerds and that's where the mess is coming from.
one day we should rethink about some " genius" like steve jobs bill gates and all other. they have created or contributed to a better world? i doubt.