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General - Stock Video / Re: Freepik Wants My Videos For A Price
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Stay away from freepik
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General - Stock Video / Re: Freepik Wants My Videos For A Price« on: February 16, 2024, 13:25 »
Stay away from freepik
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Adobe Stock / Re: What is a good number of images to submit to AS per day?« on: February 09, 2024, 10:45 »
Between 200-300 a day to have a decent amount of earnings by the end of the month
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Adobe Stock / Re: 9 Million+ AI generated photos - Stock Photography coming to end« on: December 30, 2023, 11:32 »
350k a day
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Whatever happened to Yuri Arcurs?« on: November 18, 2023, 20:53 »
I guess Yuri will be aware of how hard generative IA is going to hit his business.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Would Adobe correct 2 images for me or do I need to delete and start again?« on: November 18, 2023, 08:07 »
AI Christmas and New Year's Day images have already passed in Adobe. Now easter and St. Patrick's Day images should be uploaded.
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General Photography Discussion / Re: AI Photography-Where will standard photograhy be this time next year?« on: November 18, 2023, 08:00 »
In the short term most camera and lens manufacturers will stop doing so. Wedding, social event and portrait professionals will use smart phones whose photos and videos will be manipulated by AI to give spectacular results. Of course, stock photographers will disappear just as the professional darkroom photo developers disappeared in the past. All this will happen in stages over the next three years as AI advances. It will be a slow and very painful end.
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Adobe Stock / Re: 9 Million+ AI generated photos - Stock Photography coming to end« on: November 08, 2023, 09:45 »
I have no doubt that at the rate artificial intelligence is advancing, stock photography has a maximum of two years left to live. Right now the smart thing to do is to sell all the lenses, equipment and cameras on ebay before it is too late and they become worthless junk.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: My Sellers in October 2023« on: November 08, 2023, 09:42 »
I have no doubt that at the rate artificial intelligence is advancing, stock photography has a maximum of two years left to live. Right now the smart thing to do is to sell all the lenses, camera and photographic equipment on ebay before it's too late and we don't get anything for them.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Why image was selling great, then suddenly almost nothing?« on: November 06, 2023, 13:39 »similar experience ehre Welcome to the new normal 35
General Stock Discussion / Re: Adobe requesting people to submit images for dataset training« on: October 05, 2023, 11:50 »
There are countries in the world where for $60 you can buy an entire village, including the mayor's daughter.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Getty Images announces AI Generator« on: September 26, 2023, 15:57 »
Eventually, in approximately two years, the client will enter the keywords they currently use in the search engine, and as a result, pages and pages of images automatically just created by AI will appear, just like it happens now with photos. However, this time, no contributor will receive anything; everything will stay in Getty's bank account. That's the plan. That's the future.
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Canva / Re: Canva July sales are in, and it's not good« on: September 17, 2023, 09:29 »
All these small agencies will eventually go out of business because greed and AI
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Adobe Stock / Re: Title says robotic solar panel factory - genAI versions not even close« on: September 04, 2023, 13:40 »
The important thing is not the truth or what is true, but how people imagine that truth, even if it is a lie. Nowadays, people believe in their own truth, even if it's a lie. Truth is something subjective, dependent on who creates it or believes in it. Welcome to the new world of the 21st century.
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CanStockPhoto.com / Re: CanStockPhoto ceased operations and is closing down« on: September 02, 2023, 09:11 »
Many more agencies will disappear during the next years, AI will eventually kill them all.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - I need help please« on: August 26, 2023, 18:16 »
Given what's happening, I wouldn't upload any AI-generated images to Adobe for now, and I would delete the existing ones just in case. A portfolio of photos and videos uploaded over the years shouldn't be at risk of being deleted due to reasons that are unclear.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - I need help please« on: August 25, 2023, 15:55 »
Instead of suspending the entire account, why don't they just remove all the images generated by artificial intelligence from the portfolio and block future uploads of AI-generated images from the contributor?
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Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - I need help please« on: August 25, 2023, 14:00 »
I recommend to everyone who is uploading images generated by artificial intelligence to Adobe to thoroughly review their portfolios. Several friends have already told me that their accounts have been suspended recently. It seems that Adobe is on a witch hunt.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Getty Video royalties change« on: July 31, 2023, 22:02 »They also dont read iptc data and their upload process is just painful and does not respect my time. Instead of sacrificing profits, they make photographers pay for the videographers rise 44
General Stock Discussion / Re: Will Contributors Soon have to Pay Microstock Agencies to Host their Content?« on: July 13, 2023, 18:50 »No. We did that in 2004. It was called ShutterPoint or something. You can tell how well that worked out. Did not work in 2004 but it might work in 2024 two choices either you get paid 10% commission on sales or you get paid 30% commission but you pay $5 a month per every 1000 images. Factories of course will get a special deal, as always. It might work 45
General Stock Discussion / Re: AI model collapse as AI trains on AI content« on: June 17, 2023, 14:23 »
With new MJ versions coming this summer Ai illustrations will look 100% like photographs. By the end of this year, good bye stock photographers, goo bye models, good bye camera manufacturers. Unfortunately
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Shutterstock.com / Re: SSTK (Shutterstock's stock) closed down 10.98% today - why?« on: May 05, 2023, 14:37 »
Of course AI will demolish SS. A business concentrated in cheap stuff attracts cheap buyers, and cheap buyers will create their own AI images before paying this greedy bas_rds a dime. In the long run only adobe and Getty (maybe) will survive. For the rest...expect lot of Eye-em like bankruptcies.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Investor open letter to Getty Images Board - increase shareholder value« on: April 22, 2023, 20:22 »
The reason Getty is a sinking ship is because its greed and incompetence. More greed and more incompetence is gonna make things even worst.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Announcing the Adobe Stock policy on generative AI content« on: April 16, 2023, 07:59 »Checked in on the Discord. Quote: "there were many people who sent 200, 300 AI images a day, I myself sent around 150 a day, then the moderators were overloaded" lolI know a person in India who sent over 1000 images a day 49
General Photography Discussion / Re: A guide to generative AI for microstock contributors« on: April 07, 2023, 22:05 »
I have been replaced by AI. Actually I am not me anymore, I am AI. I don't exist. Nothing exist. Everything is just an illusion. We are all AI.
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AI Generated Stock Photography / Re: Generative AI Collection of links and important articles, videos, court cases« on: March 31, 2023, 15:16 »
"There's an expert .. who says that if there is not an indefinite pause on AI development ... 'Literally everyone on Earth will die,'"
[/quote] Someone in Trump campaign said the same about Trump not being re-elected |
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