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« on: November 20, 2023, 10:27 »
I still haven't tested uploading my own images to have them modified with ai.
That will be important going forward, to create content with camera that can be modified later.
Yes, but you should first check to see if the images you upload are going to be used for further training. Because if so, you are giving them away for free (or, rather, in exchange for the transformations you get from the software) for training further AI algorithms and services. If this happens or not, depends entirely on the service you are going to use. From what I know about the softwares/services I currently use: - If you use Stable Diffusion on your local machine, and do inpainting, obviously no one else has acces to your images. I believe this is the safest choice you have right now. - ChatGPT aka DALL-E aka OpenAI states that user-uploaded content is not utilized to train or refine its models, so this could be a safe choice too. - Adobe clearly states that they use all user-generated input to train their algorithms, as long as you upload the images on their serves. That is if you use Adobe Firefly, or even if you use Photoshop and save the images in the cloud, and not on your own computer, they will use them for further training. You can opt out of this if you disable Content Analysis from your Adobe Account (which is opted in by default), but in their own words "This setting does not apply in certain limited circumstances". I would stay away from this. - I'm not sure about Midjourney and how they use the images you provide, but with them you can only upload an image to have it described, not modified. So it's not a valid option for transforming your own images. At least for now. I'm sure there are a ton of other softwares and services that you could use, but my experience is limitted to the ones above. In any case, read the Terms and Conditions before even considering uploading an image.
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« on: November 08, 2023, 03:13 »
Go to Insights > My statistics. You have several types of reports (Activity, Best Sellers etc) and you can choose the period for which to see the stats.
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« on: November 04, 2023, 12:40 »
And I was also wondering why you need the Mega Plan? I am really happy with the $30 Standard Plan. The 15 hours of fast GPU time are enough for me. (But if they're not, it only takes ~10 minutes/day to rate some images and you get 1 extra hour of fast GPU time daily.)
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« on: November 04, 2023, 12:25 »
It's satisfying, yes. But mixed with other feelings, also. At least in my case.
I, myself, started using Midjourney back in april, when I noticed that the "Recent Top Sellers" section at AS was flooded with AI generated content. I thought I could give it a try to see how it goes. Yes, the generated images are beautiful - as long as you watch them as a thumbnail. When you look at them in full size, especially after being upscaled, they look awful. A photo shot with the camera, or an illustration would never get approved if they looked like this. They are grainy, choppy, the details are off. If I were a buyer, I would be quite unhappy to get this level of quality in exchange for my money. So it took me a while to get the courage to submit the first batch. But I found out soon enough that these images get accepted and sell like crazy. And I thought - hey, who am I to judge? If AS asks for them and the buyers like them and keep buying them, then clearly someone should provide these images. And so I kept generating and uploading.
Yes, it's nice to see the $$ coming in. And it's very profitable - since you spend way less time and money generating an image with MJ than with your camera. And it's very satisfying, since you are only limited by your imagination. But even if you take the time and effort to carefully choose only the ~30% of the generated images that are correct (no extra limbs etc), you still feel (a little) guilty about putting some content on sell that looks like garbage when viewed at 100%.
I'm sure that somewhere in the near future (maybe one or two years from now), the AI based image generators will be able to produce clean and crisp high resolution images. But it's not the case right now.
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« on: October 12, 2023, 12:19 »
This is madness! Forget about stock for a second, what if we take regular photos for our commercial clients, that we touch up using Photoshop (for instance by using the Generative Fill or Generative Expand tools). What if at some point our clients decide to use those images to train their own AI/ML. How on earth are we to prevent this? Or even know about it? We definitely need an answer from Mat regarding this topic
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« on: October 10, 2023, 11:51 »
Ouch, that's not fair! I wonder how they decide the order in which they review our files
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« on: October 10, 2023, 10:28 »
In my case the review process seems to be pretty consistent so far. Since my first post (which was 6 days ago), I had another ~1.300 images accepted, and my queue is almost empty now. The oldest file in queue was submitted 2 months ago, but most of what's there was submitted more recently (less than a month). I also had some illustrations (3d renders) and some videos accepted in just 3 or 4 days after being submitted. I still hope they are catching up and review times will get back to what we were used to in the old days.
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« on: October 05, 2023, 05:38 »
A couple of days is more towards "normal" than a couple of months, imho
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« on: October 04, 2023, 15:05 »
+1 It's super annoying on the phone
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« on: October 04, 2023, 09:15 »
Oh, so it's just random. Thanks for the feedback!
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« on: October 04, 2023, 08:54 »
Three weeks now and waiting . Direct damage well beyond 800$
This is definitely not acceptable!
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« on: October 04, 2023, 08:52 »
Anybody else noticed a sudden spike in the review process? I had 1.100+ images reviewed in total in the last 4 days (since October started), which is a really high number for me. I'm curious if this means that things are getting back to normal with the review process, or it was just a lucky shot.
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« on: September 29, 2023, 01:04 »
No need to sell your photographic gear just yet, but AI generated images do sell really, really well. At least in my experience.
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« on: September 26, 2023, 07:50 »
Not only this is morally wrong, but it's also against the rules, which state clearly that you are not allowed to submit work depicting real places or identifiable property: "Dont: Submit works depicting real places, identifiable property (e.g., famous characters or logos), or notable people (whether photorealistic or - even caricatures)."
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« on: September 21, 2023, 07:00 »
Probably images get assigned to different reviewers the moment we submit them, and that's why they're almost never evaluated in the order in which they were submitted. Some reviewers might be faster than others.
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« on: September 19, 2023, 09:35 »
For me also things go pretty well. Sales are increasing from month to month, and AS is the best agency in terms of earnings. Partly because I have a lot of AI generated images in my portfolio, but even if I only take non-AI content into consideration, AS still makes the most $$ these days
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