Anon has a business idea

Yea I mean if it sells then go for it. I'm just surprised that people at that level of narcissism are out there. Like their family are going to know the pics are bullshit if they had a real wedding or even if they faked it entirely so they're paying for something purely to pretend to strangers and acquaintances online or themselves. But maybe I should just embrace it and try to make some money out of this phenomena myself.

From what I hear it's three factors: increased quality control because the customer is less likely to brush things off for their wedding, increased customer service because they will use more of your time and energy and take shit out on you, and finally because they can everyone else is doing it

I don’t understand how because to make people look hot using ai you still need to make real pictures.

So either they just expanded the business with a popular side project or he has customers send their own pictures (which are rarely in the format, proportions, light conditions you need)

Most likely it never happened.

Plus they are so generic that 99% of people you show them to will have forgotten them a second after the photo leaves their field of vision.

With stable diffusion you can use real pictures or parts of real pictures and just let AI make up everything around it. It's not like you're generating the whole picture. You could, but it wouldn't be useful for wedding pictures.

Then again it's a greentext and as we all know: everything on the internet is true.

Eh a good or even average Lora will make a very good image of a real person that’s close to indistinguishable

With this method, I manage to get 14-fingered hands reliably. After that, the results get worse. 15-fingered hands work about 50% of the time. Asking for more fingers usually results in the summoning of a demon octopus, which is annoying to get rid of.

The nurseries and childcare facilities I work with are not thrilled but I love my job.

Yea imagine being brought up in a world like that. People would either become expert content analysts or embrace being deluded.

I mean, you always see this around new technology/fads, all the time. When it's new or ongoing, there's either an excitement at the novelty or being in the minority of people doing it; people see the chance to do some of the things that fix limitations of the current process and there's always those willing to try that out.

For a day that's already compounded with expectation and often hyped as a sort of zenith in one's life, it's easy to see being able to customize things exactly to the way you're having them play out in your head as really alluring.

And, once the hype dies down or we get used to the novel aspects, all the things you mentioned with get greater focus in the general attention, again, and people will likely value those things more (because, ultimately, you're not wrong).

But I do feel like this is a pretty consistent phenomenon with almost any trend and you always see an uptick of adopters because the ability to solve some pain points is novel.

why would I want fake pictures of something that never happened?

Seems to be a popular part of tourism in the age of Instagram.

When we were picking out a photographer for our wedding, we heard a piece of advice that had stuck with me over the years. Which was to think of wedding photos as an appreciating asset that gets more valuable over time.

You can look at your photos the week after the wedding and they might not seem all that special. The memories are still fresh and not much has changed. But then when you look at them on your 10th or 20th anniversary , it brings up those memories you had forgotten about. It reminds you of happy times with friends and relatives that might be dead now. Fast forward to 50 years later and those pictures might be the most priceless thing that you have.

So yeah... AI photos might fill that Instagram need of modern weddings, but long-term feel completely worthless. Hoping this story is fake as well, but wouldn't be surprised if there's some truth to it.

No, but definitely +30

It is. But if you fully and openly disclose that's what you're doing when selling a individual a personalized product for literally their own enjoyment, I don't see the harm.

Sure, the client isn't going to tell people that weren't there that it's all generated, but what's the problem? Someone might believe you were media-attractive 10 years ago at your wedding?

Photography probably put a lot of portrait painters out of business, but it didn't destroy painting as an art form.

Grab that bag, man.

Money is not cringe, however.