It's been a couple of interesting weeks as the Hive community discusses its stance on AI generated content. Stock Images was going to write up its own stance on AI generated images, but HiveWatchers pretty much summed our thoughts up in their own post. We highly recommended reading it so that you know where Hive as a whole stands on the subject.
We see a use for AI images in the community, but stand by what HiveWatchers have said (paraphrasing for our circumstances):
please mention clearly in your post that the images are AI generated with a source to the tool used, and add a significant amount of personal thought.
Moving on to this round's challenge, it was great to see at least one image from Stock Images used due to our drive on technology last round with the Unity Toward Freedom community. I hope we can continue to work with communities in this way.
We're going to go with a mix of the last two rounds for this challenge. The round before last we actually had a newcomer, @freiheitsammler, attempt to fill some of the topics, but they missed actually entering their links into the challenge. They were, in fact, AI generated images, so it also pushed us to address the AI stance the community will have moving forward. We'd like to thank @freiheitsammler for the images and the introduction to AI generated images by adding them as a beneficiary this round.
How it works
The challenges will run every two weeks. Each round we will have a topic or two for our contributors to try their hand at. We invite everyone to give their feedback on any entries and the best one will win Hive. Meanwhile, we ask anyone who has been looking to use images to tell us what they are looking for in the comments on this post and these suggestions will be put forward as the challenge topics for future competitions, with the suggesting account added as a beneficiary of that challenge post. They will also be invited to judge any entries and pick their favourite submission. If they also choose to use a submission, then all the better. You don't have to be currently looking for images to suggest them, you can suggest anything you may have used or wanted to use in the past or that you think might be in demand.
We invite people to add an upvote to their favourite suggestions and this will play a part in which ones will be selected first for the next challenge.
This round's challenge topics will be:
1: Sleep
2: Technology
3: Minimalism
Rules
- No plagiarism (obviously).
- Think quality. Will someone want to use your image if it's blurry or badly laid out? Low quality posts will be muted in the search feature
- Make sure you're tagging your submissions correctly.
- Make sure your images fall within legal restrictions for stock images.
- Submit your entry links in a comment on this post, so we don't miss it.
- All images are accepted, not just photographs, as long as they are your own.
We have Hive for the winning entries. All quality entries will be nominated for curation if they aren't already well rewarded. Votes will be given on all good suggestions for images, with the chosen suggestion/s added as a beneficiary on the next challenge post.
Are you looking for specific stock images to use? Please view the Stock Images Main index where you can search by alphabetical order genre. This will be updated periodically as more images are added. We also now have a search feature, which is being improved as we go, so please feel free to give feedback on it.