Quote from: ADH on November 13, 2022, 16:32

AI is also bad news for agencies, eventually stock image users will be able to download cheap versions of AI software and get the images they want without paying subscriptions. In the medium term, AI will not only kill the contributors but also the agencies

It will not kill and will not even create competition. I dealt with one program that converts HD to 4k and removes any noise from the video, but it needs a very powerful PC to work, and even on a powerful PC it takes a lot of time. As a result, the cost of a PC and electricity will block the profit.

One can easily rent a cloud GPU at very cheap price.

Quote from: Artist on November 08, 2022, 05:36

Hi, Is Alamy down? I am doing general search on any topics and getting zero results.

I had the same last week, and it seemed my defaults had been set, and not by me, to only show the 'Vital', 'Uncut' and 'Ultimate' collections and not any of the rest. I had to change my defaults to see everything.
Alternatively:
https://discussion.alamy.com/topic/16149-another-crazy-reason-to-use-editorial-use-only

works fine now.

Thanks Mat.
I went to my profile settings and changed the option.
However I did not receive any email from you regarding the nomination, neither now nor in June for photo nomination.
I usually receive an email per day from Adobe, regarding the daily earnings. I also checked in the spam folder but I don't have any email from you.
It's a shame because I definitely would have joined the proposal.

The train is lost dear, you can't do anything now.

Somehow I feel AI could be a final nail in the microstock coffin.

I predicted the same few months back.
https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/artificial-intelligence-killing-the-whole-industry/

There were people defending the same and I always said that AI training has no expiry and there is no roll-back.
This industry do not have a good future. Mark my words.

Not a good month for me.

Quote from: Lanana on October 15, 2022, 12:13

What 14000 download makes you earn $140 ? ? ? ?

Obviously (almost) free ones

Get a pair of cloths and 14000 downloads gone. 

It's early in the day and I'm already at around 4x to 5x my normal downloads and earnings for a weekday.

Anyone else seeing a really high volume today?

Not here but congratulations to you. 

I just found this on one forum. This AI has totally ripped of microstock content.

And the saddest thing to me is that they did not even bother to pay for the images used to train the AI, as they were clearly watermarked.
Yes, they give copyright to the"describers" of the AI generated images, but they used images to train it where they did not own copyright themselves. They can probably get away with this legally, but moraly I find all of this highly repulsive. They basically used our own images without paying for them to create something that one day in the future will most likely destroy our line of work.

I agree to it. I have access to some of the AI tools and sometimes when I specifically generate any works I can see watermarks of Getty, Alamy, Shutterstock, Dreamstime etc., Though the watermark is so glitched that it cannot be tracked, but since I work in this industry, I can clearly identify those.

So the point is, they created an AI robot which went through almost all microstock website, scraped the whole library of copyrighted IP images to train their AI system. And now they come-up saying that they have built something unique. Doesn't it comes in plagiarism?

But again, this has grown so badly that you cannot take any action as their legal team will easily bypass the trial.

I am also interested to know that with whose permission did they scrapped whole microstock websites. Do those websites even knew about it?

Discovered a one-line text below my earnings for the month with the text: 'There have been recent adjustments to your earnings' with 'recent adjustments' as link. Needless to say that with SS these days the 'link' is a 404 error. Anyone else? What does it all mean?

Normal, I have tons of adjusted earnings.

Good job banning these AI images, but how do they know it was generated via AI?  How will they be going back to purge previously accepted AI imagery?

They probably need another AI to detect AI.. haha 

that's a big reason why this is unlikely for DALL-E since they have a commitment to prevent this scenario. Thus, they have to keep control of the software. 

• They�re rejecting image uploads that include recognizable faces, as well as generation prompts that seek to recreate the likeness of public figures (celebrities and politicians, for example), or realistic photos of real individuals.
  
• They�re improving their filters to block users from creating harmful content �this includes violent, adult, or political content� and also removing this kind of data from the software�s training altogether.
• They�re using both automated and human monitors to supervise the platform and avoid misuse

Got this email today:
You can now upload and edit photos with faces with DALL�E.

Many of you have told us that you miss using DALL�E to dream up outfits and hairstyles on yourselves and edit the backgrounds of family photos. A reconstructive surgeon told us that he�d been using DALL�E to help his patients visualize results. And filmmakers have told us that they want to be able to edit images of scenes with people to help speed up their creative processes.

With improvements in our safety system, DALL�E is now ready to support these delightful and important use cases � while minimizing the potential of harm from deepfakes.

We made our filters more robust at rejecting attempts to generate sexual, political, and violent content � while also working to reduce false flags � and built new detection and response techniques to stop misuse.

Our content policy still prevents uploading images of anyone without their consent, or images that you do not have the rights to.

We hope this update helps you use DALL�E in even more creative and practical ways. We�re excited to see what you create!
- The OpenAI Team

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Nothing is permanent here, something not available today will be available tomorrow.
Small resolution, fast rendering, more accurate generation etc. will all come very soon.

This is not any tool, it's AI, it is self learning everyday and will become smarter and smarter.

I've uploaded this particular AI image created by DALLE2 throughout and testing the results.

Quality is pretty bad (particularly after up-sizing) so I suspect that it will be rejected by all, but interesting to see either way.

I have seen these AI tool are not so good in creating human figures. Look at the model hands, those doesn't feels natural to me.
But since it is still learning, in couple of months or years it will generate very perfect image. This is not the end, its beginning of AI.