i agree .. the majority of AI prompters are indian/asian spammers with no creativity,  lack of knowledge about the basics of photography or graphic design .. just go to the adobe contributor forum, there is plenty of indians asking why their AI art is rejected .. and if you watch their images .. .are full of errors like aliasing, noise, oversaturation etc ... also the AI makes lot of errors like missing hands, wrong illumination, absence of realism etc ... and in my opinion all the images made with AI are very similar to one another, like if they were made by the same hand ... AI is really crap ...

It's 8 years i make my graphic and now im more motivated to improve my skills and the quality of my works ... these indian/asian spammers will end their AI art soon ... on adobestock they are waiting 4-5 months for their images to be reviewed .. actually i have a 1 day time review on adobe ...

exactly... while some are "making BIG $$$" ("relatively" speaking) and brag about it to other east indians (to get clicks on their youtueb videos, then "BUY MY COURSE HOW TO MAKE BILLIONS FROM AI SPAM")... I think eventually they (in general) will get bored when untold riches aren't falling in their laps... right now the "get rich quick mentality" is still in high gear - but as more and more spam the crap out of it, I think eventually it will stop...

Educated guess - the majority of 'new' contributors are east indian/south east asian spammers - and yes, I agree with you that it is simply spamming near duplicates of popular sellers. In that respect - I'd say it's a 'good' thing - because they (in general) aren't really that 'creative' (& they don't like "hard work", scamming is what they like) - its just basically massive theft & spam as fast as possible... so - if you have a more varied port with 'mid-level' sellers (i.e., like cobalt as said she does) - I think you'll be okay.

The spammers aren't really about "research" & "good quality" - they are about spam as fast as you can & get rich quick... eventually I'd say most will get to the point where they realize it's not worth all the effort to "maybe" try and get $100/month (my guess is the majority of them probably make less than $100/month)...

Interesting, thanks! My mouth started watering looking at the photography, so  obviously you have a good camera, good lighting + good setup!

I opted into dataset trainings to get paid.

ALL my work and ALL my images anywhere on the internet have already been stolen without my consent to train ai software.

I refused to pay for Midjourney for a year because I hat their CEO. Still do.

But now I see getting an income from ai images and from dataset training as a way to get my royalties.

I would prefer to create ai only with software like firefly, but the quality is not as good.

So Midjourney and others stole all my files without asking me.

This is my way of getting paid.

I have 1100 videos on pond5 and few sales. Last month I got 180 dollars for dataset, this month 71. That is more than I got in sales, even though I had sales in both months.

Most of my clips are simple handheld shots done with my iphone.

We will se how it goes, but ai is a useful tool, it should just have professionally paid traning material.

If I am getting paid for datasets it means soemwhere a company is doing the right thing - paying for training material.

Interesting perspective... but - aren't you concerned about the sales being very shortterm? I.e., I suspect only for 1-2 years will there be what some say 'considerable' dataset earnings - but once you've allowed a 3rd party company to create competing videos with yours - (kind of like the 'ai images') - you're sales will most likely drop significantly altogether... so you get a little bit 'immediate' income - but long term, very little because you've now "allowed" people to make cheap knockoffs of your original videos...

Maybe leave out the racism, how about it?

And IT stuff usually comes or is co developped in Asia, so there will be lots of hindu, muslim developers as well in addition to atheist, christians and maybe wiccan believers...

The biggest disadvantage of having ultrageneric titles and descriptions is that it supposedly is bad for seo. Your files will be more difficult to pick up by the crawlers and probably achieve less specific rankings.

It is also bad for the agencies for the same reason.

But I think a lot of people will start doing it in the hope that the copy cats move on to the ports with all the prompts still included.

There are plenty of legit ai creation tools, i.e. the ones where we get paid for data set trainings.

Today I got 71 dollars from pond5, in November it was 180. For 1100 simple clips that is a nice add on.

The people with 30k ports are probably again swimming in money.

So if we get paid, ai training is a different thing, it becomes additional income.

Lol - are you referring to me? It's not "racist" stating the companies are jewish-owned - because they are - check for yourself - and it is significant to point that out when you understand (in 'general') their idea of what "doing business" is. It's most likely not the same as yours. Also - it's important to understand how certain cultures conduct business - and - the fact a lot of "anti-hate" legislature is specifically designed to make people such as it seems yourself afraid of stating the obvious. Look into the ownership of the companies - hang around a few to figure out the "business ethics" (or lack thereof) and some things will become quite apparent.

As for employees - you are correct. A lot of IT stuff is indeed developed in Asia, as well as East india. However, many IT companies have had to re-hire europeans, because after they went to hire "east indians" -  the quality was so utterly crappy - they had to get it redone. (I've personally hired east indians too and experienced that first hand... MULTIPLE times. It's just how they do business - they see what they can get away with, with doing the least amount of work possible - and if can be stolen and passed off as their own - even better). For asians - (western) companies have realized that is not necessarily a good idea either - because (a) many times they don't necessarily know what they are doing, and (b) data "mysteriously" goes missing, and magically competiting companies pop up. Lol - it is "SO" bad in some cases - that even ASIAN companies are EXTREMELY secretive within ASIA so their own employees don't steal their trade secrets.

Not "racist" when its true. I'm stating the obvious.

(PPS, being German, I thought you would be aware of the "programming" designed to make Germans feel REALLY bad about themselves for something that really didn't quite 'happen' the way the (jewish-owned) media portrays it... But that is an entirely different topic).

Getting back to the titling...

Yes. Ultra generic titles (potentially) can be 'bad' for SEO, if you are hoping to get SEO based sales (primarily from google). So it is a tradeoff - have some east indian rip it off to "get rich quick" when you use a complete title - but - have a chance of getting a sale from SEO... or make it harder for them to rip it off, but potentially affect SEO sales... Up to you...

Re: the dataset earnings - is that for the last year? Or just this month? If that is something you wanted/opted into, and are happy with - good job!

This is a real problem.

I even found one case where somebody copied my image with a German word, but the word is spelled wrong in his image and he has good search positions with it.

What I am trying to do is make my descriptions much shorter and more generic. Then at least they have to load a screenshot of my file into an ai for description, one additional step.

I hope they prefer to go to a port where every description is perfectly usable directly for ai.

But it is a problem.

I do believe especially with people, many customers will choose to exclude ai from their search, which is very easy to do.

Yes, as I've said many times... "AI" is not an actual "thinking" machine, but rather (for the most part all jewish-run as well) theft based machines. So basically they steal/scrape data, then arrange it into "buckets" - then "blend" the output (this is also true of things like chatGPT, etc).

So if you have a "detailed" description, i.e., "Sunset in a blue mountain with three seagulls flying above at 3:05 p.m." - when the so-called "AI" steals the images - there are very few images (if any aside from that one) that it can arrange into buckets called "Sunset in a blue mountain with three seagulls flying above at 3:05 p.m.". (There of course is a little more to it than just that, but for simplicity this is how I am explaining it).

So if someone uses that exact same prompt - because the "reference" material the AI stole from only has that SINGLE image - it will most likely "create" (aka "blend") something very similar - because it doesn't have other reference images to blend together with... So that is why the image(s) will look virtually identical.

HOWEVER, if you have something called "Sunset". Well, there are probably 100's of thousands of images just called "Sunset" - so it now can steal ("blend") from 100,000 images - and so it is unlikely that it will look 'just' like your image...

So Cobalt - you are correct - by using generic descriptions - it makes it much more difficult for someone to simply steal your work.

Because the "ai" tools are ALL THEFT based. They are NOT "creation" tools - they are "THEFT-BASED" tools. That is why it makes it "easy" for people to "steal" things using the same prompts.

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I think when I did the math - for 'unlimited' sites it works out to something like $0.05-$0.10... shitterstock seems to be a lot of $0.10-$0.15...

Lol, no - the sony rx5 is not necessarily "better" than the p900. The are a different class of camera. It's like saying apples are better than shoes. Makes no sense - they are different. Both are good.

The RX5 is good for night shots, slow motion (1000 fps), and has a 1" sensor. Unfortunately, the zoom is very poor.
The P900 is very good for 'general' zoom shots. It's not great on quality though.

And lol - yes, I have both - so I know what I am talking about

With the $15k camera - I don't recall. I was just going through some brush (I think I was doing some bird shots) and ran into him - and was like 'what what kind of camera is that?' (Because he had the super supppppppppppppppppper long lens). I think it was a DSLR with a 1200 mm lens, but don't recall. But it was huge/massive. Kind of like the picture pete posted, except I think it was white. Don't recall which brand, just that it was a big massive setup.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on October 27, 2024, 06:11

This is a nice camera for slow motion, something like 1 million+ frames a second a bit out of my budget at the moment:
https://petapixel.com/2021/07/20/the-entry-level-phantom-tmx-5010-can-shoot-1-16-million-fps/

Stock agencies do not accept videos with such low resolution.

Haha. Yes. So I need a super slow motion WITH higher resolution too (BTW, it is not necessarily for 'stock' - more just for personal fun/the coolness factor of having such a slow motion camera. You should check out a youtube channel called the 'slow mo guys').

Also - it's not that specific model. I think the one I want is actually more like $150-$200k USD. (Just didn't have time to find it right now when replying to this post, just found the first I could find). That is a "cheaper" model "only" being $50-$60k USD.

congratulations!

Quote from: SuperPhoto on October 20, 2024, 07:36

So you would think it was 'raining money' in Ukraine, and US dollars are falling out of the sky because of all the "money" that is going there, bags & bags of 'money'...

This money does not go to Ukraine. In fact, the US spends this money inside the US to produce some weapons. But these weapons are not supplied to Ukraine either; at best, old similar weapons from US warehouses are supplied. Thus, the statement that the money is for Ukraine implies that the money will be poured into the US or Canadian economy. But, in fact, the US and Canada supply very few weapons. And they do not supply the weapons that are needed.
Yes, perhaps there are some small monetary programs through which money comes to support the Ukrainian budget or social payments, but this is small money, a small part of the billions that the Democrats spend (or steal) on God knows what.

As for the Russians, they need to be deported from all civilized countries. Most of these Russians support putin, the Russian empire, the occupation and terrorism.

A good Russian = a liquidated Russian.

You can personally test any Russian with one question. Ask him whose Crimea is? Most Russians will answer that Crimea is Russian, Crimea is russia, and that Crimea belongs to the Russian empire. After such an answer, you should immediately punch him in the face. 

a) Re: the money aspect - yes, from what it appears/from a lot of reading - it really is simply a way to steal money from people in general (via 'hidden' taxation being 'donate to ukraine') - because yes, it does not appear any actual ukranians are benefitting from the 'aid' - but rather that it is just going to a handful of people/inflating their bank accounts. (They want power/control - and they believe in using "money" to control people - so that is what they are doing).

b) Re: russians "in general". That is not really fair, and I don't think you would want someone to say 'oh ukrainians should be punched in the face', would you? I'd say perhaps the politicians issuing orders while being corrupt, the ones knowingly attacking knowing its wrong, etc, and the people who actually are organizing this "war" - perhaps "they" could/would 'deserve' that. But to make a blanket statement about one race in general - no, that's not right.

With respect to Crimea... it actually sounds very similar to the "fight" between China & Taiwan. China figures Taiwan is "part" of China, Taiwan says no we are an indepedent state - more specifically the politicians and their handlers spewing rhetoric.  It really doesn't matter - both land masses are composed of people.

But what DOES matter is the small group of pyschopaths trying to promote infighting - because then it makes it a heck of a lot easier to steal things from them. It's a bunch of pyschopaths versus the rest of the world - not ukranians vs russians, chinese vs taiwanese, etc, etc...