Dec. 4 at 11:31 AM
$GETY Of course, you still want real photos for certain things such as news coverage, team photos, or food in a restaurant. In those situations, you would not use stock images in the first place, because they require real context, trust, and authenticity. However, this is a completely different case from generic stock images, which already look staged and artificial.
For those use cases, it makes very little difference whether an image comes from a stock library or is an AI-generated variation of one. You can even take a stock image and create an AI variant of it....for free.... and most people will not be able to tell the difference. This is already happening, and the technology will only improve.
When people say they are tired of AI images, they are probably referring to the older, clearly artificial looking ones. With the latest models, the difference is becoming almost impossible to spot. In the context of stock imagery, it simply does not matter anymore.
