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« Last post by cobalt on April 18, 2024, 20:58 »
for me the slowest months are july august, especially in Europe many companies close down for 4 weeks. business teams is probably the best money maker, but you no longer need people in suits. you can do messy tech start ups. which is probably even more difficult to get it right than the classic penthouse glass office. anything with real people needs great models, many hire professional actors. or you need a photographer who is really, really good at getting natural expressions out of normal people. you can try doing people teams with ai. it is also something i want to learn this year. but the more people in the image, the more mistakes. i had such high hopes for my ai flower illustrationswell, maybe better to do abstract people instead 
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« Last post by Mifornia on April 18, 2024, 20:31 »
He-he Cobalt, We always think the grass is greener on the other side: you are doing AI illustrations and Im doing AI photos 🤣 I always thought photos are the money makers: look at all office and tech people that are so wildly popular! (and my illustrations of flowers are not selling well) Im so tempted to go and take photos of office people, but one probably needs actors for releases? And real offices are so messy!
So question for earlier contributors, whats the slowest month? It should be April, correct?
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« Last post by Uncle Pete on April 18, 2024, 16:47 »
Another question I ask myself is whether Brexit might even play a role here - my picture was taken at a time when the UK was still in the EU and I may be wrong, but as far as I know I was still allowed to upload the picture at the time.
I wouldn't have thought so, legally.
Just because someone brings a lawsuit, that doesn't mean they will win, or collect. This case doesn't mean Alamy has lost, just that they are defending. No I don't think they should be taking artists money for deleted image. Just for a brighter possibility, Bild loses the case and has to pay PA back the defense fees and everyone gets their money back? "You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one.." I could be wrong, but this just smells bad of frivolous lawsuit and something other than, illegal image use, or copyright infringing for showing the cover of a magazine, as an incidental part of a broader scene. .
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« Last post by kuriouskat on April 18, 2024, 16:26 »
I've read a lot recently about people getting their accounts suspended for 'irregular sales activity', so it's actually made me worry that a great sales day could end badly.
I've had a large series of images downloaded and, although this has happened before on other sites, it's the first time it's happened to this extent on Adobe.
I'm assuming the sales are legitimate, and I'm not looking to suddenly cash out the earnings, but should I be reporting this to someone just in case? Maybe @MatHayward could advise if there is anything I need to do?
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Russian money in the USA? Do you really think that Russian idiots keep their money in the USA, given that the third world war has been going on for 10 years? How naive.
The REPO Act is about confiscating russian assets worldwide, not just in the US, and about preventing the US president to lift the existing sanctions against russia without Congress approval (something that maga is expecting trump to do). Do your homework: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4175Yes, some members of the Republican Party want to show off and are engaged in populism. But only Democratic trolls can inflate all this nonsense to the level of a worldwide Republican conspiracy against Ukraine. You are funny.
Yes, you slowly begin to realize the inconvenient truth: a majority of the GOP is now against Ukraine. trump's isolationist and populist maga is now controlling the GOP. Here is what other "GoP" representatives or senators have to say:
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« Last post by stoker2014 on April 18, 2024, 16:03 »
Wilm, I still hope that, even if they are a minority inside the GOP now, there are still enough old-school Republicans left in Congress so that together with an almost unanimous pro-Ukraine vote from the Democrats, the bill will pass.
maga and trump are indeed an existential threat for Ukraine.
Another example (see below): JD Vance, another maga representative, the same who wrote that Op-Ed in the NY Times justifying how Ukraine should give putin what he wants in exchange for an illusory peace (mentioned a few pages ago), is against the REPO Act meant to seize russian assets and give them to Ukraine, being concerned that it will remove trump's ability to negotiate with putin!
JD Vance is instead trying to convince his colleagues to protect putin's billions.
And stoker still needs proofs...
You dont understand well what you write and what you criticize. These are such big matters that there is no point in discussing them in this way. For example, the EU froze $500 billion of Russian money, but the EU does not want to give this money to Ukraine. Because they are Europarasites. Russian money in the USA? Do you really think that Russian idiots keep their money in the USA, given that the third world war has been going on for 10 years? How naive. Yes, some members of the Republican Party want to show off and are engaged in populism. But only Democratic trolls can inflate all this nonsense to the level of a worldwide Republican conspiracy against Ukraine. You are funny.
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« Last post by stoker2014 on April 18, 2024, 15:51 »
Meanwhile, a delegation of parasites has arrived in Kiev Kyiv to help rebuild the energy infrastructure destroyed by the Russians.
Let's see how these rallies and events end. Kyiv is correctly written like this.
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« Last post by stoker2014 on April 18, 2024, 15:47 »
Now you are no longer interested in this "dispute" when the facts are so overwhelmingly against you, when your gullible pro-maga beliefs are shattered live, in front of your eyes...
Whoa! What a syllable! What an epatage! What an expression! Yes, dear, you need to write novels, not discuss politics on forums. 
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« Last post by cascoly on April 18, 2024, 14:35 »
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There will be other magazines that don't care and that is their choice.
and that's the key problem - it isn't whether digital or AI content is used, but how it is represented. and that becomes increasing difficult in a world of deep fakes at all levels the discussion should not be whether a tool is ethical or 'real' but how users of that tool are presenting it
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« Last post by cascoly on April 18, 2024, 14:28 »
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Doesn't really answer the question - if you cannot distinguish real photos from Ai created images, why should you inists on using real photos? Yes, AI suck at most medical content right now (though I have sold AI images of medical conditions already) and food is hit or miss, but I have sold many AI food photos as well. I even once posted a link here to a site with Asian recipes - all images were AI created. (And most looked very weird. Obviously the creator of that site did not care)
But AI is only going to get better in the future. So why should someone inists of using a real photo "just for the sake of using a real photo", when there is no difference in the end result?
Why use a real photo when, at some point, the people buying and reading the food magazine will not be able to tell whether real photos or AI images were used? Especially if AI images were so much cheaper and faster to create? I don't see the advantage from the publisher's point of view.
if a food article is about a specific recipe, then the final result would hopefully show an actual dish, but it could use ai for individual ingredients, or techniques or, Scientific American often uses illustrations for quantum, medical, astronomical and other complex articles but no reason AI couldn't help here, especially as a first draft, AS LONG AS there is human review for accuracy.
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