AI and loss of variety and quality

[CentroEleiaMonica]

It is such a pity the vareity and individuality lost by the overwhelming amount of AI images. They all look the same, the overwhelming ammount have caused  interesting "human made" images to almost dissapear. . It is harder to create images and it is slower to, so now you can only find this homogeneous material. Stock images have lost so much with this AI revolution

[Jill_C]

Gen AI images now represent ~17% of the total inventory in Adobe Stock, and though that percentage is slowly increasing, it is far from the majority of the assets available to Buyers. If you do not want to include AI images in your searches, use the Filter panel to omit them altogether.

[Abambo]

Gen AI images now represent ~17% of the total inventory in Adobe Stock, and though that percentage is slowly increasing, it is far from the majority of the assets available to Buyers. If you do not want to include AI images in your searches, use the Filter panel to omit them altogether.

By @Jill_C

As this is true, generative AI assets are probably the most recent ones, and the search algorithm tends to show newer assets first (besides other factors).

[Abambo]

Stock images have lost so much with this AI revolution

By @CentroEleiaMonica

AI assets are high in demand. You can't change that. You need to use the filter options to eliminate most of the AI assets from your search.

(I agree with the core of your rant!)

[JuliO111]

AI offers a million times more variety than photography. If you don't understand that it can do ANYTHING, then you will probably think negatively about this tool judging by his fantasy foxes or 6-finger hands. Another thing — is how specific people use it. And here everything depends on the level of intelligence, taste (which is different man by man) and experience. Wait 1 year and you will see that AI will do what would take a photographer 15 years of progress. Now you are scolding a 2-year-old child for not knowing algebra. He will grow up.

[Jill_C]

Is AI going to be able to capture images of your daughter's birth, or her first steps, or her graduation, or her wedding? AI has its place, and will definitely augment photographs to a certain extent, but don't forget that it DEPENDS uopn good photography to exist. So to say that AI offers a million times more variety is just silly hyperbole.

[JuliO111]

I speak as a person who has worked in advertising (furniture, design interior, real estate) for many years - AI and will conquer everything in the commercial field. Especially when AI will start use of templates of real products (you give photo or product - and he add it to photo), will have character protection. This will happen in a year or two. Personal photographs of relatives and your feelings towards them are a completely different matter. Again - 5 years ago everyone said that nothing could replace a DSLR camera, but now even in marketing for companies 30% people using just IPhones.  Purchasing $30,000 worth of equipment for the company's personal needs will become a thing of the past. Only specialized agencies will have this. 

AI depends on the photo as much as it depends on the text and the operator. Of course, his base is the real world and how it looks like. I remember how 5 years ago everyone criticized even drones, electric scooters and much more. And remember 10 years ago - they also criticized touch screens. And what we have now. 

Of course, this is an addition to the real world. But its capabilities are a million times higher than any photographer, this is understandable if you start using it in a couple of days in a professional format.

[daniellei4510]

Traditional artists were worried that the invention of photography would make them obsolete. Photographers were leery about the invention of Photoshop. Many amateur and professional photographers have put their digital cameras away and are returning to film because "photographers can achieve a distinctive, authentic look that is difficult to replicate with digital cameras." (Seems I've heard something similar with regard to AI.) But we still have traditional artists, photographers are using Photoshop to their advantage (as well as the AI features within Photoshop to some degree), and camera companies are still releasing the latest and greatest digital cameras. 

Meanwhile, movie companies have always been at the forefront of taking advantage of AI. Why should Hollywood alone have access to the tools that the public now has access to (or at least those tools that are affordable to most)?

AI will no doubt make obsolete some professions. Amateur models for sure, though we will always have our Cindy Crawford's and Naomi Campbell's going forward.

Anyway...hold on to your hats. AI has only just begun. It's going to get better...and it's going to get worse. All we can do is wait and see. 

[Abambo]

I remember how 5 years ago everyone criticized even drones, electric scooters and much more. And remember 10 years ago - they also criticized touch screens. And what we have now. 

By @JuliO111

These are apples and oranges comparisons.

Progress will happen whether we like it or not.