What picture would you want me to use that’s not royalty based or copyrighted or has privacy issues?
I’m open to ideas.
Or let me put it this way.
I use AI because:
- I don’t have to pay royalties for stock images
- I don’t have to use images of real people invading their privacy
- I can create an image that is owned by the site and modify it freely
- I’m able to create images and other iterations without charging me like crazy.
AI is a tool that helps reduce cost and increase speed BUT it takes time to get to a steady state.
There’s definitely AI slop, but that isn’t 100% of AI generated content.
For instance, an image by a designer will cost $100 for a few images with 3 revisions. I’ve paid over $1000 in images in the past and I’m only using a couple of them now. Editing them with a designer is prohibitively expensive and had to buy a license for illustrator and photoshop in the past to make minor edits.
These days I invest it into hardware like a newer Mac Studio which I’m using now for $4,5k for the M3 Ultra 96GB and I can create images and also video with them. All from the same purchase. I’m using LTX 2.5 for video generation Qwen 3.8 27B and Qwen 2.1 image and already running out of memory. New Mac Studio is on the way, these also have agents that do different actions across the site and expanding their role. For instance, AI will help me reclassify the manufacturer labels. It's quite complicated to migrate, so I enlist the same AI system to help there as well.
AI is a Swiss Army knife and allows me slice and dice information. I set the different inputs aggregate the data summarize it then generate an image based on the summary. Then I adjust it over time after different iterations and tech stacks.
I’ve used higgsfield ai, OpenAI, sunburst, nano banana 2 , nano banana 2 pro , etc and each iteration changes to see how to adjust images.
