Say I'm looking for photography of real events and places, like a royal weeding or a volcano erupting does this help me? Of specific places and architectural features? Of a protest?
I think if I was istockphoto.com I'd be a little worried, but that is microstock photography. I'm not sure that is worth billions. In fact I know it isn't.
Besides once this tech is wildly available if anything it devalues this sort of thing further closer to $0.
It would probably augment existing processes rather than replace them completely.
If you are doing a photoshoot for a banana stand with a human model with characteristics x,y,z you're still going to get a human from an agency or craigslist to pose. If suddenly the client informs you that they needed human a,b,c instead maybe one of these forthcoming tools will let you swap that out faster. You'd upload your photoshoot and an example or two of the type of human model you wished you had retroactively and it would fix it up faster than an intern.
Shutterstock is a direct competitor of iStock and is a $3B company. I personally pay them $200/mo. Maybe you just don't know enough about this industry?
Seems about right. Their yearly revenue is $700 million, I don't know about iStock as it isn't public. Any other big ones?
My hypothesis is that it could be a partial replacement/competitor and devalue their offering - reasonable to assume you'd be paying $99/mo soon and it will gradually decrease as the tech spreads and more competitors emerge.
Adobe is also in this game (https://stock.adobe.com), they are not unfamiliar with AI. You can see how a lot of people will jump on this if it proves to be lucrative.
I don't claim to be an expert and I didn't say this is worthless.
Say I'm looking for photography of real events and places, like a royal weeding or a volcano erupting does this help me? Of specific places and architectural features? Of a protest?
You're suggesting clipart on steroids: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
I think if I was istockphoto.com I'd be a little worried, but that is microstock photography. I'm not sure that is worth billions. In fact I know it isn't.
Besides once this tech is wildly available if anything it devalues this sort of thing further closer to $0.
It would probably augment existing processes rather than replace them completely.
If you are doing a photoshoot for a banana stand with a human model with characteristics x,y,z you're still going to get a human from an agency or craigslist to pose. If suddenly the client informs you that they needed human a,b,c instead maybe one of these forthcoming tools will let you swap that out faster. You'd upload your photoshoot and an example or two of the type of human model you wished you had retroactively and it would fix it up faster than an intern.
Cool.