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> influencer agency The Clueless was only inspired to design her because they found real-life models and influencers too unreliable and difficult to work with.

hilarious

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Yes, but it does not cover the other minor benefit: not having to pay the talent.

Also getting 11k a month

Hmmm, but did we all skip over a very important issue?

Are the gen AI images subject to copyright?

They aren't are they? [0] So could a competing agency use these images in their own campaign without compensation?

Or, is doing some Photoshop work like adding a background, or color grading enough to make the work copyrightable?

ChatGPT 4's summary on the matter does not "think" that just changing a background is enough. [1]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-generated-art-cannot-receiv...

[1] https://chat.openai.com/share/400042fa-b97d-4be7-b715-ac8db7...

That's a really interesting point I hadn't considered.

No strikes. No opinions (refusal to appear with other content). No diva behavior. Just a cog doing what’s expected.

It may be some years off but eventually video content will move toward synthetic actors and actresses. Some real actors will remain but will be a minority. People still go to see live plays.

>People still go to see live plays

That’s where holograms come in.

Technology seems to turn everything into cottage industries eventually.

Problem is that it hollows out the middle and all that's left is either expensive niche stuff or mass produced synthetic crap. Wood furniture is a good example today.

It's doing the same thing with employment and society in general.

Hollowing out middle class jobs and the middle class itself. And as we see, it won't stop there. Doctors, Lawyers, Programmers are all on the chopping block as well.

That is historically quite ironic given how cottage industry was the early industry before factories disrupted them. Of course you could call work from home coding cottage industry too.

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