Browsing stock.adobe.com, there’s a new problem with the flood of AI-generated artwork. I’m willing to pay more for art created by a human, just as I want to read words written by a human and not a robot. AI-generated art is abundant and cheap to produce. Yet they are both priced the same by Adobe.
@manton That’s exactly why I dumped my Audible subscription after years - no way to extract human work from the flood of slop, and no pricing differential. Fortunately libro.fm sill exists as an alternative.
@ffmike Taking this further, there’s an opportunity for businesses that are not based on ads to actually provide a solution here, because those businesses are not incentivized to have infinite content. Audible should in theory be in that category.
@manton Costs* for creating visuals down but costs for curation & finding professionally usable visuals are up. Human curation costs. Someone has to curate, and it’s us.
Proponents are betting generated art is going to stop looking mid spontaneously… someday?
@pratik I’d be happy to use such a site. To Adobe’s credit, they have an easy way to filter out AI-generated art.
@manton I’m starting to use word “avalanche”. “Flood” is too slow for what’s happening with AI slop.
@manton Except that Amazon has prioritized (I think) the theory that everyone should be an author so as to incrementally increase the participation in their overall ecosystem. Convince people that they’ll make money and they’re less likely to leave. (Even though the long tail of people make essentially no money).
