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Re:No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation by Retr0id on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @06:19AM (#43620054)
I've never used a stock photo site before, so I suppose it's no surprise I have no real use for "generate any image on demand".
Re:No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation by YurgenJurgensen on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @06:46AM (#43620204)
Their main application appears to be taking blog posts and internal memos and making them three times longer and use ten times the bandwidth to convey no more information. So exactly the application AI is ‘good’ at.
Re:No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation by wongarsu on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @04:38PM (#43626212)
If anything stock image websites are even worse at this then AI. With AI you come up with an image idea, then try to make the AI produce something close to it. With stock images you come up with an image idea, then hope some photographer had a similar idea and uploaded it to a stock website.
Re:No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation by esperent on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:44AM (#43622384)
I've used stock photo sites occasionally but I use vector art and icon sites multiple times a week. Even today, I used an few different sites while designing some stuff on Canva.

The reason I don't use AI is because it gives me far less reliable and impossible to specify results than just searching through the limited lists of human made art.

Today, for undisclosed reasons, I needed vector art of peanuts. I found imperfect but usable human made art within seconds from a search engine. I then spent around 15 - 25 minutes trying to get something closer to my vision using ChatGPT, and using the imperfect art I'd found as a style guide. I got lots of "huh that's cool what AI can do" but nothing useful. Nothing closer to my vision than what I started with.

By coincidence it's the first time I'vr tried making art with AI in about a year, but back then I bought a Midjourney account and spent a month making loads of art, then installed SD on my laptop and spent another couple of weeks playing around with that. So it's not like I'm lacking experience. What I've found so far is that AI art generators are great for generating articles like this one. And they do make some genuinely cool pictures, it blows my mind that computers can do this now.

It's just when I sit down with a real world task that has specific, concrete requirements... I find them useless.

Re:No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation by Suppafly on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:40PM (#43628420)
>so I suppose it's no surprise I have no real use for "generate any image on demand".

Other than stock photos, porn is the killer app for that, but most of the AI companies don't want to allow that.

Re:No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation by avereveard on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @01:05AM (#43629041)
How about remove blur from your photo, remove blocking items, denoise darks and fixing whiteouts. Granted it's not quite there yet for everything but it's pretty close.