My first thought was that this is fine, good even - nobody really expects stock imagery to be a creative output, it's just a tool or resource, and it's pretty much definitionally regurgitation of...
My first thought was that this is fine, good even - nobody really expects stock imagery to be a creative output, it's just a tool or resource, and it's pretty much definitionally regurgitation of a pattern. AI, if nothing else, is extremely good at repeating finely-tuned patterns. Generating stock imagery with AI tools seems like a good use case for them.
But as the article immediately points out, stock photos are - well - photos. Someone had to set up that scene and take the photo and edit it. At one point in time that image, which we treat merely as visual punctuation, was a physical event. It did take creativity to make that image, inane as it seems to us when placed on some content-farm blog; it did take labour which would be automated away by these tools.
Once again, I'm left feeling that the rabbit-hole is endless.
This all feels like the inevitable direction of a technological society. We'll need to re-define property rights if we want to prevent wealth inequality from getting even worse.
This all feels like the inevitable direction of a technological society. We'll need to re-define property rights if we want to prevent wealth inequality from getting even worse.
My first thought was that this is fine, good even - nobody really expects stock imagery to be a creative output, it's just a tool or resource, and it's pretty much definitionally regurgitation of a pattern. AI, if nothing else, is extremely good at repeating finely-tuned patterns. Generating stock imagery with AI tools seems like a good use case for them.
But as the article immediately points out, stock photos are - well - photos. Someone had to set up that scene and take the photo and edit it. At one point in time that image, which we treat merely as visual punctuation, was a physical event. It did take creativity to make that image, inane as it seems to us when placed on some content-farm blog; it did take labour which would be automated away by these tools.
Once again, I'm left feeling that the rabbit-hole is endless.
This all feels like the inevitable direction of a technological society. We'll need to re-define property rights if we want to prevent wealth inequality from getting even worse.