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The current state of AI images on stock platforms
Shortly after Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and Stable Diffusion were released in 2022, it was clear that the business model of classic stock image databases would possibly be the first to be threatened.
While the big players like Shutterstock, Adobe, or Getty were still figuring out how to deal with the new technology, new interesting projects like stockai.com were launched. The operators have understood that artificial intelligence extends the range of a stock database practically to infinity. Unfortunately, after a short period of operation, they have announced that they will discontinue their service on February 25, 2023.
This is made possible by connections via API to the corresponding AI models. If no ready-generated image is available on the platform, the user can create one himself with just a few clicks.
Some platforms have also decided against supporting AI after some back and forth. The world’s largest platform of free images Unsplash, which now belongs to Getty, came to the conclusion not to accept AI-generated images. 3D renderings, on the other hand, have been okay for a while.
It is unclear how Unsplash plans to verify the creation of the images. After all, it has long been possible to use AI to imitate the style of well-known 3D programs such as Blender or Octane, so that…
