<story><title>Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective</title><url>https://www.stockperformer.com/blog/is-ai-killing-the-stock-industry-a-data-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksaj</author><text>I had to put together a presentation that was somewhat graphic-heavy. I used Dall-e 2, and the ability to get things so tailored to what I needed, so quickly, was absolutely worth it.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if AI will replace stock photography, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t bet against it.&lt;p&gt;The ability to charge a high price for stock photography is over though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guax</author><text>There are so many photographers out there putting so many images on platforms that you get paid almost nothing for them. Unless you get a great image and have a proper agent or contact passing them along you don&amp;#x27;t get much. Payout for some of my images ranged from under 5 USD to at most 40 USD for one image one time.&lt;p&gt;Some photographers just spam TONS of images on the platforms to get some cash by betting on the long tail. Someone, somewhere with a shutterstock subscription might need your image for a local magazine&amp;#x2F;paper and you get 2 dollars for it.&lt;p&gt;That kind of stock photography might suffer even more with generated images. Actual premium stock or for hire photography will not.</text></comment>
<story><title>Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective</title><url>https://www.stockperformer.com/blog/is-ai-killing-the-stock-industry-a-data-perspective/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ksaj</author><text>I had to put together a presentation that was somewhat graphic-heavy. I used Dall-e 2, and the ability to get things so tailored to what I needed, so quickly, was absolutely worth it.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know if AI will replace stock photography, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t bet against it.&lt;p&gt;The ability to charge a high price for stock photography is over though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stingraycharles</author><text>And the sad thing is that these models are most likely trained upon most of these stock photos to begin with. I can understand the frustration of the industry.</text></comment>