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Messages - fotoVoyager

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Except the machine learning vendors broke into the bookshop at night, copied every single word and its relationship to every other as positioned by artists then spewed them back out again in a new alternative for money.

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FYI PayPal won't let you transfer your balance, even when it's in US$, to a non-American US$ account, I tried it every which way in the UK and I presume it'll be the same in the Euro region.

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Off Topic / Film: The Wizard of AI
« on: December 06, 2023, 03:41 »
I'm not sure whether this has been noted before, but this short film about AI, largely made with AI, is quite interesting:



Here's The Guardian article on it:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/05/wizard-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-alan-warburton-dangers-film

Lots of terms new to me - "Wonder Panic"!

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Stocksy / Re: Is it worth uploading to Stocksy?
« on: December 01, 2023, 01:28 »
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altho some portfolios... I question how they got there... https://www.stocksy.com/davemills/showcase?page=1

Why? Theres some pretty powerful and astonishing images in there.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Question about Exclusive at istockphoto
« on: October 12, 2023, 02:16 »
You have to apply for Exclusivity for each separate media - photography, illustration and video. You must have just applied for photography.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock Sites that Ban AI
« on: September 22, 2023, 07:38 »
Getty

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Congratulations!

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Getty Video royalties change
« on: July 31, 2023, 16:57 »
As far as I can tell this represents a reduction in royalties for still images, exclusive and non-exclusive.

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Getty used to do this - it was called Photographer's Choice.

Back then you could make so much from a good, useful image that it may well have been worth it.

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Could be of interest to some:

https://www.stills.com/apply

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https://stock.adobe.com/fr/contributor/211252585/robert-meyner

Those are amazing images. Ironic that the stock business model that everyone was told to follow - shoot people - is going to be the first sector to be consumed by AI.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: January 2023 earnings statement
« on: February 22, 2023, 11:55 »
Yep, just got mine.

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You always get one of those emails when theyre about to pay you, so you should receive your money shortly.

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I thought you could apply and theyd judge you on your submitted work, but I may be wrong.

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Theres a big difference between iStock exclusive and Getty exclusive. IStock is total artist exclusivity for RF, Getty is image / sister image exclusive. Make sure you know which one youre signing up for.

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Nah, thats a very bad deal for photographers - small dollar amount one time payment per picture for an exclusive image that you cant ever remove or sell elsewhere. No royalties.

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What's interesting experimenting with this technology is what it's good at and what it's bad at.

I think it'll eventually become really good at lifestyle stuff - beautiful woman sitting in private jet, eating a bowl of salad etc. for instance. So those type of photographers are screwed.

Imagined images and illustrations - those artists are largely screwed.

Generic landscapes - misty forests, dramatic mountain ranges, green farmland. Those photographers are screwed.

What it's really bad at is named locations. It doesn't seem to be able to produce decent realistic images of Big Ben or Mt Everest or the Taj Mahal because those images require a single viewpoint and you can't combine images without it looking very odd.

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At the very least the watermarks show the images that they use to learn from are stolen.

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This sort of thing is the reason agencies are rejecting this kind of content, because someone is going to get sued for a lot of money somewhere:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/artist-finds-private-medical-record-photos-in-popular-ai-training-data-set/

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Selling photos to russia
« on: September 13, 2022, 05:22 »
Why all this negative criticism of Russia?  Don't you people know your history?  And don't you know what has been going on in Ukraine these past couple of years?  Do your research and don't believe anything you read in the press, and particularly the American press.

Yes we do. The Russians, under Putin, have been invading Ukraine and killing Ukrainians since 2014 whilst waging a propaganda campaign that only the foolish cannot see through.

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It is very impressive, but it is using pre-existing images at some point in the creation process.

Photographers and illustrators need to be paid for the use of those images, unless they've been donated.

Inevitably, it'll be like Pinterest and other tech start-ups - steal and never say sorry.

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Presumably it's a reaction to Shutterstock buying Pond 5.

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iStock / Getty accept cityscapes with multiple logos that aren't too dominant. You'll need at least 5 different ones in a scene I would guess.

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