<story><title>I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2</title><url>https://deephaven.io/blog/2022/08/08/AI-generated-blog-thumbnails/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not, yet. While it&amp;#x27;s cheap relative to stock images, it&amp;#x27;s time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will continue to be valuable.&lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image. It might be called &amp;quot;A.I. image artist &amp;quot; This individual will generate an image with an A.I. but use graphic tools to finalize it for use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deltree7</author><text>Also there is nothing preventing Stock Image Sites themselves using Dall-E to generate additional images. Heck they can use their own existing images for training (which the other&amp;#x27;s can&amp;#x27;t due to copyright issues) to increase the portfolio, but the Stock Image Sites can access free public images.&lt;p&gt;So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value</text></comment>
<story><title>I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2</title><url>https://deephaven.io/blog/2022/08/08/AI-generated-blog-thumbnails/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not, yet. While it&amp;#x27;s cheap relative to stock images, it&amp;#x27;s time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will continue to be valuable.&lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image. It might be called &amp;quot;A.I. image artist &amp;quot; This individual will generate an image with an A.I. but use graphic tools to finalize it for use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andreyk</author><text>Agreed - having played around with DALL-E 2 a fair bit and having made a lot of usage of stock images over the years (for blog posts with specific subjects), I would say the former takes more work&amp;#x2F;time than the latter. With stock images I can just do a quick search on Shutterstock and find a lot of high quality options (usually), whereas with DALL-E 2 I need to figure out the exact prompt I want and iterate on it for a while. Stock images are not that expensive -- if you buy many it&amp;#x27;s as low as $2 per image, or on the high end (if you pay to just download a few per month) it&amp;#x27;s more like $10 per image. It does cost more, but time is money, so...</text></comment>