Thoughts on Firefly using public domain and stock images also while comping people who contribute?
I often hear the "It steals artwork!" argument get brought up and if I'm completely honest, I can at least somewhat understand this one.
But then you have Adobe Firefly that not only uses public domain images, but their own stock images. I personally think Firefly generates really decent images as well.
(at least I think they came out good)
Not only that, but if someone contributed a stock image, they were compensated for it:
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/firefly-faq-for-adobe-stock-contributors.html
I really like this idea and wish other bigger models would do something like this. I bet a lot of artists would be willing to submit their own art if they got paid and it would certainly destroy that argument.
I get that most companies aren't going to do something like this, but I think it's a cool thing that Adobe does and it would be better for antis to fight for something like this instead of just calling AI images AI slop and threatening people.
What do you guys think? Do you think it would be beneficial for more companies to try something like this? Or is it not worth it?