Buying a license for a stock photo vs using AI to create what you need is cutting corners? Don't thing there is much difference in effort (might even be more on the latter)?

▲

movedx01 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Buying a license for a stock photo is paying someone who has put the effort.

Well, okay, I am not sure how much effort goes into creating your typical stock photo, probably not a lot, just still more than 0 effort it takes for the AI to generate it.

And yes, I see difference between an automated system flooding the web with AI generated "news" in disguise vs a niche blogger using AI to iterate on an image with hand crafted prompts. Labels are not perfect, just better than nothing.

	▲	RandomLensman 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Compliance burden tend to favor the large, which is not what I think is a direction that needs more pushing into. (I also think that labels will quickly become just "background noise" that is mostly ignored.)