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Somehow I find the Dall-E and othe AI generated pictures revolting … is it the choice of colors or what I don’t know? It’s like looking at an art piece without a soul ..

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DALL-E has that quality, yes - I did a project where I tried to recreate my own photographs with DALL-E, which shows both its potential and limitations right now: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1551663900776595461

(obviously ignoring the potential to conjure things you cannot photograph...)

And I suspect this points out one of the more common future uses of the tool. Not replacing photographers per se, but certainly taking a large chunk out of the already shrinking Stock Image market. If instead of having to find a stock image that I can use as the base for my work (usually with at least SOME tweaking) I can just describe what I'm actually trying for as a final product...

I'm not going to be getting rid of my Sony A7riv anytime soon, but this certainly would discourage me from trying to increase my library at Getty

Do you think you could pass a Pepsi challenge of random images from the internet vs Dalle?

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