Interesting - thanks for sharing.

"Wonder Panic" is the perfect expression for all this. I find myself drawn to the speed and diversity of images that I can generate - I can set up a concept in minutes - while I'm similarly repulsed by the fact that my own work has been appropriated by these engines.

Disruption is certainly the key to all this - it's change for the sake of change rather than for any constructive purpose and there's no way to know where it will all lead.

Will AI be the final death knell for microstock? So weird than an industry - microstock - that started around 2005, will probably be gone less than 20 years after it began - but the concept of selling creative effort for pennies was probably never sustainable. Even without AI, it was those who appropriated our work in another way - the stock agencies that take 2/3rds or so of the profits - that were always making the bulk of the profits, disrupting the traditional photography market and making money off artist's work with their algorithms.

That was a really well put together film. Think it captures what a lot of us are thinking. I really like how he/they made it pretty much entirely out of AI-generated images and video. It was nice to see Grotty Corners in there. Cheers for sharing.