Too late. Enterprising people have already made a lot of money with the hundreds of thousands of generated photos that they have uploaded to stock agencies, I have seen many of them already. They have made a fortune off people's stupidity.
currently, there is a greater demand than ever for content shot, drawn and produced by our Contributor Members themselves
I wondered if that time would ever return, a time when what was created by man, with all its potential imperfections, would be more important than what was created by machine, or if we would continue to sink further and further as humanity.
Now I wonder what all these sellers of AI-generated "framed paintings" on Etsy, or AI-written books on Amazon, will do. Will they prosecute these people, will they take their money for immoral money-making, for copyright infringement? I'm waiting for this issue to finally be clarified once and for all. 🤔
The short answer to your question would be "No".
It is still the wild wild West when it comes to monetizing AI generated content.
However, I believe human-created content will be in bigger demand, actually, as AIs need real content to train, not self-train on their generated stuff.
In the long run, if AIs train on their self-generated content, it will all end up in 100% hallucinations, right?
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That's right, but it's precisely this - the ability and the decision of this thing, a machine, an inanimate robot, to hallucinate, its ability to make things up... that's the most disturbing and scary thing about the whole situation. It makes it even closer to humans, to their characteristics, traits and essence, doesn't it?
In my cases, when I've sought information from it and it started hallucinating and making up non-existent things, instead of just saying - I don't know, I don't have that information, it makes it look human in a weird way, and that wasn't the idea when it was created, or is it the other way around? That it was created on purpose so that it can eventually replace humans and everything they have created...
It's the beginning of the learning curve for them, with just a few years of being "alive" :)
I suppose they will all do much better when/if training properly but probably never perfect as all AIs have been created and trained by other imperfect being - us :)))
I'm not sure, and perfection is really a relative term when it comes to imperfect beings like us - humans, yes. How can a by default imperfect being say what is perfect and what is not?
But I think about the photos, for example - when I process my photos, taken with a non-professional and quite old camera, which I actually hope and pray to use for a long time, I see all their imperfections - noise, difficulty focusing, extremely strong chromatic aberrations... but the picture is real, authentic, it represents real things.
While the generated photos lack all these imperfections. The photos are perfect. But are they actually photos? A photo means capturing the moment. The moment is missing here. The entire logic of the essence is missing. Have we ever thought about this? Do the people who buy and use such 'photos' think about it? Capturing the moment is what gives life to a photograph. There is no moment here, therefore this image is dead. That's how I see them. And that's why I categorically refuse to use dead images. I prefer mine, the living ones, with all their imperfections.