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Messages - Big Toe
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« on: January 06, 2023, 07:33 »
No they don't and neither does Zoonar
I have regular sales at Zoonar with a relatively small port, about 1000 images, mostly via their partner Picture Alliance. Generally speaking, Zoonar is all about the partners. They sell relatively little directly. I sell mostly German landscapes and landmarks there. I also occasionally have a sale at Panthermedia, but not very often and mostly for not much money. I have not uploaded there for several years, though. They also sell mostly via partners and unlike at Zoonar, you have no control about where your images are sold.
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« on: December 07, 2022, 06:43 »
Hello,
I can't create a new AdobeStock account. The system reports that "New account creation is not available at this time."
In which country do you live? I think it is possible that the account creation has been suspended for some countries like Russia.
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« on: December 04, 2022, 15:30 »
AI isn't getting inspired. It doesn't think.
The question is moot.
Like a cow?
What's with the cow. 
It's like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter. It's moo! (Joey Tribbiani) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLwYpSCrlHU
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« on: November 23, 2022, 14:44 »
And then you have people that submit something that they are not. Most likely in the high brackets. So the results might be questionable, like the poll on the right of your screen. Can't imagine the Microstock world just consists of Adobe and Shutterstock while at least Istock/Getty's or Pond5 should have some slice of the pie, right?
Why would anybody lie about their earnings in an anonymous poll? It may happen, but I don't think that many people do it. And iStock and Pond5 do have their slice of the pie. For iStock the number is 23.3 and for Pond5 8.6, as of now. The numbers are not currently displayed, because less than 50 poeple voted for these agencies. You can still see the number and also how many people voted for the agencies when you hover over the names with your mouse pointer.
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« on: November 22, 2022, 16:42 »
Its interesting that there is as many people here on $2,000+ as there is on $100-$200.
That's because the scale is not uniform, Annie.
If the poll would use regular intervals, and the number of voters would be much higher, I belive the graph may end up looking like a poisson distribution.
There might be some logic to that, since, overall, microstock sales may follow a poisson arrival process (just a hypothesis).
You are of course right that the size of the brackets influence the picture we get. For example, the bracket 1000-1500 ist five times as large as the bracket 900-1000, so it is not surprising that there are more people in it. Is it still remarkable, though, that about 30% of the voters earn more than $1000 on average. So for a lot of people the money from microstock is still a significant part of their income.
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« on: November 18, 2022, 15:04 »
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. 
A quote from Seneca, but it sounds like a Rule Of Acquisition. It should be a Rule Of Acquisition!
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« on: October 22, 2022, 17:13 »
Shutterstock is running at 537% better that Adobe in this current month.
Is this comparison for downloads or earnings? I also have more downloads at Shutterstock this month (and most, if not all months, for that matter), however, the earnings are better at Adobe.
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« on: October 20, 2022, 10:34 »
Anyone knows how to get our money from Clipdealer.de?
After more than a year of waiting and tons of email to their support still no money and even no reply!!!
They are owing me money, too, and I plan to ask them once again per mail and if they still do not pay, I will send them a registered mail letter next, probably threatening with legal action. It's a shame, because sales weren't that bad. I also wonder how a German company can behave in such a way for so long without consequences.
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« on: October 10, 2022, 03:14 »
The $60 have now been updated to "MX$60". Whatever that means.
This means Mexican pesos. One peso is worth 5 US cent, therefor the 60 pesos would be about 3$.
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« on: September 30, 2022, 19:49 »
If I had to make a 19th century naval battle the first thing I'd do is google and look at all the pictures and see how they were composed, mood, structure etc. Let's be honest who wouldn't?
Sure, but you would be able to abstract from the specific images and choose a setting and specifics for the battle yourself, for example you would choose, which countries ships battle each other, for example Turkish ships against Russian ships, indicating this by the flags of the ships. You would probably choose a specific battle, like the Battle of Sinop during the Crimean War. You would show some fighting, like cannons firing, smoke, damage to the ships. You would be able to abstract from the style of the images you looked at so that your image probably would not look like an oil painting. All of this is missing from the image Cascoly generated with the AI.
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« on: September 30, 2022, 19:36 »
again, unsupported assumptions tending towards conspiracy theories- that's not how machine learning operates,
Then please enlighten us how it does work. and your claim DALL-E copies other images is specifically denied by open-ai. you may choose not to believe them, but that doesn't justify your claiming to know how the image is created.
I am not claiming the Ai copies any specific image. I claim that the AI creates images on a variety of existing images and I claim that the AI has to store what it learned somewhere. We store information in our brain, computers typically use databases. Without a database or some other data storage the AI can learn nothing. So the question remains what exactly is stored in this data storage, what does the AI actually learn? Clearly it does not learn what a naval battle is. It only learns how images with that description or that keyword look like and it has to store this information somewhere. So it has to store for hundreds of thousands keywords how the images with those keywords look like. How else would it be able to create images when the user enters those keywords? You seem to think that this is some kind of magic. I believe it is technology.
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« on: September 30, 2022, 12:36 »
and you continue to pose the false narrative that these AI are copying images to create new ones. Even those agencies banning AI do not make that unsupportable claim. instead, they are concerned about the training of AI which is an entirely different issue
Then how do you think this works? Let's take for example the picture that was supposed to be a 19th century naval battle that you created some some ago with the AI. How do you think the AI created this? Clearly it did not learn what a naval battle is, because the picture did not show one. So either it looked on the spot for pictures with a 19th century naval battle in description or keywords and created a similar image, or what it thought is similar or else during the training most of the information from the images the AI was treined must have been written into a massive database and then the AI created the image from that information. Either way, it used more or less directly existing images to create your images. What other way is there? Clearly the Ai did not make the jump to understand the images it was trained to understand that a naval battle requires ships fighting with each other in water, so it could not for example create a photo realistic image with water and sailing ships, but the style of the image clearly showed that it was created with old oil paintings a a basis. The AI was not able to abstract from that.
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« on: September 03, 2022, 06:51 »
It does not really understand what a mountain biker oder a meadow or a naval battle is.
To elaborate on that: We as humans know that cannons firing or something else indicating fighting is very important for a picture of a naval battle. It tells the spectator that they are watching a picture of a battle and not, say, a regatta or a chance meeting of ships. The AI does not know that. For the AI the firing cannons are just minor details that can be lost. It does not get the essence of a picture of a naval battle.
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« on: September 03, 2022, 04:37 »
just started today - here are the results of my first session
mountain biker riding through an alpine meadow with mountains in the background
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19th century naval battle
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I think your examples show something about how the AI works and the limitations it has. It does not really understand what a mountain biker oder a meadow or a naval battle is. It creates images from the description with the help of the images it has available or was trained with. And for mountain bikers that will be mostly fotos and for 19. century naval battles it will be mainly fotos of oil paintings. Therefor, when asked to create a picture of a 19. century battle, it looks like an oil painting. And as the AI does not understand what a naval battle is, it fails to show the battle aspect of the oil paintings it uses and we get just two ships sailing after each other. Also the meadow looks really awful. It looks like an amalgam from various meadow pictures, but not like any meadow you would meet in reality. You see some colored blops, which are supposed to be flowers, but you cannot really recognize any specific flower or any blade of grass. The foreground is also conveniently out of focus, so that the AI does not have to create the details of the meadow. Not that the parts in focus look much better. The mountain biker seems to just ride through the meadow, without any path or trail. Yet between the wheels and through the lower parts of the hind wheel, there appears a brown patch, indicating that the mountain biker was generated from pictures with a different background.
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« on: August 16, 2022, 13:35 »
So you make generations from your own uploaded images? Then you would own the rights and the work would be all from images that you created and have the individual rights to.
"To the extent allowed by law and as between you and OpenAI, you own your Prompts and Uploads, and you agree that OpenAI owns all Generations (including Generations with Uploads but not the Uploads themselves), and you hereby make any necessary assignments for this. OpenAI grants you the exclusive rights to reproduce and display such Generations and will not resell Generations that you have created, or assert any copyright in such Generations against you or your end users, all provided that you comply with these terms and our Content Policy."
Seems pretty clear and open: Use of Images. Subject to your compliance with these terms and our Content Policy, you may use Generations for any legal purpose, including for commercial use.
I did not understand the question of the OP to mean that they refer to images created from their own images by the AI, but rather to images that the AI creates on its own, based on what it learned. But even if only the OPs own images were used in the training of the AI, the terms still seem to indicate that OpenAI owns all generations and just grants the user the right to use them. That seems to make them unsuable for upload at images agencies to me. At least I would not do it.
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« on: August 15, 2022, 18:03 »
as often as it used to be?
I had the last large (20+) image sale last December. I did not have them every month, but still with some regularity. Since then, nothing, not even when I take into account that sales in January yield less money because of the reset of the level. Now I am back at level 3, but what does it help when almost all sales are 10 cent or slightly above. This month the largest sales was 50 cents so far. No other sales with more than 14 cents. It was never this extreme before. The number of downloads is ok. They just yield less and less money.
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« on: August 11, 2022, 06:48 »
Yes. I see numbers.
And where is the vote?
The numbers are the vote. If want to submit a vote, you have to go to Polls/Submit Vote on the menu bar at the top of the site.
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« on: August 07, 2022, 17:17 »
Someone tell me, CO2 is 0.0414% of the atmosphere and that's causing the climate to change? I never knew it was such a small number as 4/100th of 1 percent.
What is causing the climate change is the manmade increase in the CO2 concentration. The base line concentration of about 0.028% is also causing a greenhouse effect and together with some other gases is responsible for the Earth being a class M planet. Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be an ice planet.
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« on: August 07, 2022, 04:12 »
Funny Scientific Fact:
In fact, carbon dioxide, which is blamed for climate warming, has only a volume share of 0.04 percent in the atmosphere. And of these 0.04 percent CO2, 95 percent come from natural sources, such as volcanoes or decomposition processes in nature. The human CO2 content in the air is thus only 0.0016 percent.
Is that the best you can do? Just make up some stuff?
It's neither funny, nor scientific, nor a fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere
0.04% ... FACT...Now go and accuse real scientists they are inventing stuff you don't like!
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So, its a FACT, its SCIENTIFIC, and its FUNNY and there's nothing you can do about it. 
The current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was the only fact in your posting and noone disputes that. Or perhaps I should say it's almost a fact, since the concentration is increasing and according to the Wikipedia article I linked to, the concentration was already 0.041% in 2018, but never mind that. What is made up is that 95% of that is from natural sources. In pre-industrial times, the concentration was only 0.028, so the increase, which is mainly due to human activities, is 0.012, not 0.0016, as your posting suggested.
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« on: August 05, 2022, 12:29 »
On a more serious note:
There are not really nearly a million pictures of sliced tomatoes at Shutterstock.
If you sort by "Fresh Content" you will see that the vast majority of these pictures are not pictures of sliced tomatoes, but rather some pictures that contain one more more tomatoes or some dish that contains tomatoes and a slice of some sort.
For example a slice of pizza with tomato sauce.
The search engine does a very good job, though, to mainly show real sliced tomato pictures first, if you sort by Popular.
You get the same picture at Adobe.
So perhaps only 10,000 or maybe 20,000 or 30,000 are actually pictures of sliced tomatoes. You may argue that that is still more than enough. And sure, it is enough that a new picture really has to be very good in order to have a chance to sell and even then it may very likely be buried under all the other good pictures.
I would say, though, that it is not as easy as it sounds to create an appealing picture of sliced tomatoes, as it is not so easy to get really clean cuts.You kind of proofed this yourself with your own attempt (if the single picture at the bottom of your post is yours), because if you are honest, you will have to agree that it cannot really compete with most of the pictures in your screenshot.
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« on: August 05, 2022, 12:13 »
Because!
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« on: August 05, 2022, 09:47 »
It is starting to get ridiculous with the 10-14 cent downloads at Shutterstock.
This month, I have 2.5 times as many downloads at Shutterstock as at Adobe so far.
And yet I earned about 7 times as much at Adobe. And that is without an extended license or something like that.
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« on: July 31, 2022, 15:24 »
Do you know what "Nuclear semiotics" is? A field of research to come up with a long-term nuclear waste warning message, the attempt to warn humankind in the far future of the danger of location of nuclear waste without the assumption that they speak any language known to us.
A reasonable number of people today can still read texts that are more than 2000 years old in languages like Sanskrit, Hebrew, Ancient Greek or Latin. Specialists can read even older texts in languages like Hittite or Sumerian. I have no doubt that mankind will still be able to decipher English texts in 10,000 years, and probably a number of other languages spoken and written today, like Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, German, Russian or French, as there is so much literature and other written stuff availble in these languages and it is very unlikely that this will all be lost. Unless something really desastrous happens that destroys our civilasation, like when the earth is hit by gigantic meteorite. In that case, some nuclear waste will be the least of our problems.
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« on: July 31, 2022, 15:11 »
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You can install all the solar panels on all the buildings you want (if you find the people to install them), you will still have next to no electricity at noon in winter and none at all after 3 or 4 PM.
solar panels still work on cloudy days
They only yield a fraction of what they do at sunshine, though, and they certainly don't work after sunset. batteries are available, but expensive - some areas have a way to feed the grid when excess power is generated
Yes, of course the solar panels feed the power not locally needed into the grid. The problem is that everybody does that at noon on a sunny summer day, while not much power from solar panels is available in winter and none at all after 3 or 4 PM in winter. At least in Germany, it may be different further south. The power from wind mills cannot compensate for that and they do not always provide the same yield either.
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« on: July 31, 2022, 07:42 »
Not really. The Germany government spends around 37 BILLION € subsidizing the coal industry each year. Where did you get this number from? This would be about 17% of the Federal Budget. Seems exceedingly high. In 2021 they only spent around 13 billion for the development of renewable energies.
This seems to be about the amount collected with the EEG surcharge (EEG-Umlage). Germany spent more money for the energy transition, though, like subsidies for electric cars or for low energy houses. And there was plenty of time. Only that for the past 20 years the governmet wasted all the time. Compared to the support of other industries, they basically did close to nothing for renewable energy industries. Then why did nobody else have more success? Again, with the exception of countries with large ressources of hydropower. Also not really. We could store much more energy if the government had spend more money on building strorage facilities, instead of supporting the coal industry. The technology is there. We just don't spend enough money on it. And right now we don't produce enough renewable energy to have any kind of storage problem.
Also, we could produce a lot more energy through renewable recources that don't need to be stored, but could be used right away. Put a solar panel on every single building. A solar panel on a roof can cover around 40% of the electricity needed for a residential building. That's 40% less energy you need from other recources. But for that, a law that would require solar pannels on roofs of newly build buildings should have been passed 20 years ago. Didn't happen till today.
You can install all the solar panels on all the buildings you want (if you find the people to install them), you will still have next to no electricity at noon in winter and none at all after 3 or 4 PM. And again, why did nobody else have more success storing electric energy from wind or solar? Seems like there is no easy solution after all, or somebody would have used it by now, even if the technology is there, in theory.
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