AI images for the masses: Shutterstock and OpenAI partner up

Submitted by sidianmsjones t3_yde6gd in singularity

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.

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Sashinii t1_itrzgd3 wrote

I just made a thread about Shutterstock and the centralized stock imagery industry in general, which isn't showing up because all of my threads on this specific subreddit have to be approved by mods (I can post threads fine on other subreddits) and nobody ever explains why that is for whatever reason, but basically, this is a pathetic attempt by Shutterstock to stay relevent when they as a company and their industry are irrelevant and will soon be replaced by decentralized AI.

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sidianmsjones OP t1_its2f0j wrote

Replying to Sashinii (#226,982)

Huh, no idea what's up with your account man, sorry about that. But I don't think it's a pathetic attempt at all. Honestly the best thing they can do at this point is embrace AI and go with the flow, developing services around it, and I'd say this move is how to start in that direction.

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Sashinii t1_its3d9m wrote

Replying to sidianmsjones (#227,287)

I appreciate it, but it's fine. Hopefully my thread will be approved, even if it takes a day.

Also, while I agree that it's important to embrace AI, the future is decentralized and democratized, not centralized by any company, let alone a company that preaches "ethical practices", when in reality, they happily censor for China and want control over AI.

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rushmc1 t1_itswzo7 wrote

I'd never use such a thing, and it seems desperate.

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realGharren t1_itu2wsa wrote

Just to be clear, this isn't Shutterstock embracing new technology, this is Shutterstock trying to cash in on the hype before their business inevitably becomes redundant.

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-ZeroRelevance- t1_ituso16 wrote

Replying to Sashinii (#227,384)

I’m in the same boat with the posts - whenever I try to post something here, it gets flagged and doesn’t show up on the main page. I’ve messaged the mods about it before, and they were able to approve it for me, but any later posts I’ve tried to make were also flagged, and weren’t cleared even after a few days. I’ve just given up on trying to post anything here these days.

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