The horse bolted on this one about 2 years ago. The companies already have a wealth of images. Throw in images no longer under copyright, (some) Creative Commons licences and the best you can hope for is that companies like Meta cease using new images for their data and (wishful thinking) pay some kind of royalty (as Adobe Stock is doing). Photographers need to face reality and adapt. Clients who are using AI never appreciated the quality/value of your work in the first place and those that do will continue to pay whatever the market dictates the price is. I can see stock libraries introducing their own AI models trained on the images with the creator getting a percentage (again, the Adobe Stock model) There will still be markets where photography will be more essential than ever in an AI world - photojournalism with a stamp of authenticity is needed. Wedding photographers won’t be going out of business in a hurry
The horse bolted on this one about 2 years ago. The companies already have a wealth of images. Throw in images no longer under copyright, (some) Creative Commons licences and the best you can hope for is that companies like Meta cease using new images for their data and (wishful thinking) pay some kind of royalty (as Adobe Stock is doing).
Photographers need to face reality and adapt. Clients who are using AI never appreciated the quality/value of your work in the first place and those that do will continue to pay whatever the market dictates the price is.
I can see stock libraries introducing their own AI models trained on the images with the creator getting a percentage (again, the Adobe Stock model)
There will still be markets where photography will be more essential than ever in an AI world - photojournalism with a stamp of authenticity is needed. Wedding photographers won’t be going out of business in a hurry