• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Isn’t the whole thing about AI that it generates “bespoke” images on demand rather than pulling from a prearranged catalog?

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        You can “bespoke” abstract reusable image if you want. Oh, and maintaining a catalog with a huge amount of “not quite fit but might be good enough images” isn’t free either.

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          You can “bespoke” abstract reusable image if you want.

          But the AI output engine doesn’t.

          maintaining a catalog with a huge amount of “not quite fit but might be good enough images” isn’t free either

          It is significantly cheaper and less energy intensive than generating new images on demand. That’s before you get into AI images as the same quality of “not quite fit but might be good enough images”

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            Exactly. AI is just better for a significant percentage of purposes. You completely ignore all the costs of the “traditional” creating of the images while exaggerating the ones of the AI generation.