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Rick Smolin, the creator of the best-selling 'Day in the Life' book series, expressed concern about the impact of AI on the value of photographers' work. He compared the situation to a marriage where one partner is having an affair with a younger person, suggesting that AI could eventually replace photographers.
Like many of my peers my photographs are sold around the globe by Getty Images and we've always considered our relationship with Getty as you know symbiotic. You know we photographers risk life and li...
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Rick Smolin, the creator of the best-selling 'Day in the Life' book series, expressed concern about the impact of AI on the value of photographers' work. He compared the situation to a marriage where one partner is having an affair with a younger person, suggesting that AI could eventually replace photographers.
Like many of my peers my photographs are sold around the globe by Getty Images and we've always considered our relationship with Getty as you know symbiotic. You know we photographers risk life and limb to provide Getty with our images and in return Getty markets our photographs to buyers. But with the advent of AI it's sort of starting to feel a little bit like a marriage where one partner in the relationship is caught having an affair with a much younger more attractive person while assuring their spouse this is nothing more than a dalliance.
You know we assume that our images are being sampled to generate the synthetic images that Getty is now selling. And many of us are very concerned that our work has become a commodity like coal being shoveled into Getty's LLM engine.
And also sort of like the cheated upon older spouse many of us believe it's only a matter of time before we're cast aside for this much younger and much sexier young thing called AI.
So my question to Craig Peters is whether this marriage is over but you just haven't admitted to us yet and you haven't told us or if it's not over how does Getty Images envision its relationship with actual photographers versus prompt jockeys and how is Getty going to compensate us your long-term partners fairly for our images in the future?