https://the-decoder.com/ai-images-for-the-masses-shutterstock-and-openai-partner-up/

Some fun I had in another post...

Shutterstock pairs with OpenAI for AI image generation. Perhaps the beginning of the slow replacement of 'manually' created stock imagery forever. Eventually it pairs with GPT-4 for a more "human like" interface to this service. Instead of having to insert countless prompts to maybe get what you want (something many common folk may not want to do or understand), you just converse with the AI, telling it what you want and it generates it for you.

AI also becomes the support. Almost all support personnel are able to be let go as the AI is able to handle 90% of user issues. You can even find photos you want by describing them to the AI.

The website design later becomes AI designed and operated. A/B testing against analytics is done every minute, on the fly. The site morphs to every individual user's use case and maximizes the amount of money they are willing to spend on the site.

Shutterstock AI web crawlers watch for design, news, and pop culture trends to generate new assets every day catered to changing demand.

AI becomes more efficient at accounting and taxes than the people previously doing it. More and more business backend is more efficiently and cheaply done by AI.

A journalist reaches out to Shutterstock support for questions regarding design decisions, philosophy around paying artists work involved in AI training, and the roadmap for the future. The interview is published in a major news outlet.

Shutterstock is now less of a business, and more of an entity. But this is no longer a surprise in 2033. They've all become this way: Facebook, Google, Netflix, Apple. They are alive now.