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Messages - ADH

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I don't understand why people waste their time uploading to Dreamstime

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No. I hired someone to make me an original character design...

Were they cheap?

 There is a good saying: "The only way of making money in photography is by selling all your gear."

BINGO!!!!

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If you go to church every day and pray that your images move high up of the algorithm they will eventually rise. If you pray, you will be listened. That's what I was told since I was a child.

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3000??? How do you write a description and keyword that many if you don't mind me asking?

Some people employ other people to help them to edit and write keywords to the AI images they upload. For example I know a man in India who employs teenagers to do the job in exchange of candies, sodas and cigarettes and he is doing very well. He told me he now uploads more than 2000 AI images a day using different accounts under several family member names.

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SS will not last more than 3 years, victim of AI and its own greed the infamous agency will have a slow death.

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I would say 5 to max 7 years is a realistic scenario where only the big agencies like Adobe Stock, Getty / Istock, Alamy, etc. and of course agencies with editorial content will survive.
Perhaps small very specialized agencies (food, architecture, etc.) will survive by license supplying AI model developers.
All others are either too unknown, poorly diversified or have no recognizable long-term strategic orientation. They will disappear.

3 years are to short to see large market changes because of current AI technological barriers. With the exponential technical development, the marketing and thus the awareness of AI models will increase significantly the following coming years. In addition, many users most likely have medium-term plans for stock licensing, so they won't switch next year. I think we will see a strong shift for the first time in 3 years, when image generation will be possible in real time.

In my opinion, there is a scenario in which the big stock agencies could remain profitable in the long term without ending up like Shitterstock as a pure data supplier for AI model developers.
You would need to develop your own AI assistant that allows prompting that combines an AI model with stock or customer's own photos using img2img with inpainting / outpainting.
This would have the advantage of being able to fulfill a wide broad of customer wishes through a high degree of flexibility by using the available high res photos with very low image errors.
You have to get away from the rigid old concept of a pure image database.
I have a design suite platform like Canvas in my mind but with focus on images, 3d and videos.

Let's take the example of a small car repair shop that wants to create a customer offer for cheap winter tire and oil changes as an advertisement for Christmas.
The marketing manager has an in oil covered smiling Santa in mind who is changing the tires in the car shop garage.
He could either take his own photo of his own garage and then pick out a Santa and integrate it into the photo in real time using an inpaint command, or he could use a prompt command to display a garage and a Santa separately, pick out suitable ones and then merge them into one picture. He could leave copy space free for text or his own logo, etc. 

The advantage would be the extremely high individual flexibility in comparison to current AI image generators.
Agencies need to integrate AI in a clever way.
There is no way around it. They have to invest money to remain profitable in the long term. And only the big ones can do that.
I would bet heavily on Adobe Stock to expand in this direction.
They actually have a lot of expertise in this area with their software design suite.
So integrating stock photos into Photoshop was a smart first step. But Photoshop is too complex for the normal user so they have to replace it with an AI assistant.

People will need no agencies for that, it will be free applications available that will do everything for free. SS is charging a customer for something the customer can get for free in many applications today. Imagine in one or two years.
SS is a sinking boat like most of today available agencies.

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I'm new to stock. Started last year. Just wanted to. Monetise my images. Don't think I want to make living from images. My main target is to grow on YouTube. But obviously love to make some passive income from images.

With Ai here, people will still love to get real images. I've seen WordPress and Tumblr are selling data to train Ai, I won't be surprised if FB, IG does the same.

I've seen some sales on AS, so probably will focus creating more videos.

People are getting lazy and with AI, more people will prefer to sit at home and generate images rather than going out there.

You are jumping into a sinking boat

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Three to five years, we'll be down to the last of the survivors. Adobe, iStock, SS and Alamy. Each of those has a big corporation backing them, while the stand alone agencies will be drowning without a life jacket or anyone to rescue them.
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They will squeeze more and more the contributors, they will drop the prices, they will introduce advertising in their pages etc etc etc they will finally die drowned without a life jacket or anyone to rescue them.

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You guys all wrong, all but Getty and Adobe will disappear in max 3 years, the industry is changing almost every quarter because AI. SS disappearance will shake the dying industry. SS business model is now obsolete with many agencies offering the same garbage to the public.

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I know a person in India who has hired 12 year old kids from a school to generate AI images, add keywords and upload them to Adobe. He manages 16 different accounts using names of family members and is making thousands of dollars. He told me that he uploads over 1000 images a day and is trying to expand his business to upload at least 3000 images a day.

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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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Between 200-300 a day to have a decent amount of earnings by the end of the month

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350k a day

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I guess Yuri will be aware of how hard generative IA is going to hit his business.

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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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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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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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similar experience ehre

Welcome to the new normal

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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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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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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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