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Comment by wiether

2 days ago

> IMHO near term a lot of that stuff might start showing up in advertising and news content, the whole media industry is going to be a massive consumer of this stuff.

One of the candidate for mayor of New York ran a whole AI video ad campaign.

Half of the real estate listings have AI remodeled pictures.

Probably a quarter of the printed ads I see each day are AI generated.

It will only increase, but it's already here.

Real estate agents only use AI because it's cheaper than paying $70 CAD per image for human-made images. There's a cap on how valuable the AI generated images are.

  • The last time I sold a house, a professional photographer took some beautiful photos, gave the realtor like 60-80 and he picked 40 for the listing. He absorbed the cost of that with his commission. No way in hell did he pay $2800-5600 (I'm also in Canada) for those photos.