Thought I would post a little follow up from the previous posts where I started up a new channel using AI for pretty much everything.

TLDR - Backing off from the AI approach and not using AI images anymore. Using stock video footage services as a replacement.

So as you all probably all expected the creative limitations and flaws in doing this have shown up a few weeks in. The more I use the different image generation sites the more I see how much they all regurgitate the same very similar images for a set prompt.

It's also quite interesting when you look through what everyone else has created, you see the same faces/characters and certain look coming up again and again.For a video about fashion through time, not a single service seemed to have seen a certain style I was prompting for. It really exposed for me how these image engines are not so much "ai", more an image calculator machine that just takes the data from it's training and splices it all together with a randomisation factor added in.

This brought to the front the moral issues again that have always been on my mind in how much these services actually rely on the training data. If it hasn't seen something created by someone else in it's training it doesn't know how to draw it. I also really boxed myself in with the whole AI thing right from the off. I just want to mess about making random shorts videos to find what I do and don't like creating and not be confined to the whole AI thing. Then at some point maybe I will find something that can be expanded on.

Don't want to do anything to do with games though. Still plan on being a faceless channel as I have neither the face or voice for presenting. Going forward I have a few ideas and I will lean in on stock sites such as artlist and the like so I'm using licensed imagery when it comes to some source material. I may use Adobe firefly generative fill inside Photoshop sometimes, however with that all of its training data uses fully licensed imagery from Adobe stock so it doesn't have the same moral issues as the other services.

This does lead on to a bounty suggestion:-

For added content that isn't your own, What providers have you used and what do you recommend? Paid and free/creative commons for each of stock stills, video footage, music, sound effects, free/creative commons and paid premium?