Something this sub should probably discuss more: the conversation about ai images usually centers on artistic applications or deepfake fears, but there’s a growing middle territory where hyper-realistic ai images are just being used for regular commercial content. Social media posts, marketing materials, product photography, brand imagery. Not headline-grabbing stuff, just normal content produced differently. Quality has reached a point where the average person scrolling cannot reliably distinguish generated content from photographed content. And this isn’t theoretical, it’s happening now across instagram, tiktok, twitter, and monetized platforms. The distinction from the deepfake conversation is that it’s mostly self-representation or fictional personas rather than impersonation. Creators generating images of themselves in places they haven’t visited. Entrepreneurs building fictional brand characters. Businesses doing product photography without physical shoots. The technology conversation keeps focusing on capability while application focuses on ethics, but there’s a practical middle about how this changes content economics that deserves more oxygen. submitted by /u/Easy-Affect-397
Originally posted by u/Easy-Affect-397 on r/ArtificialInteligence