This. Modeling and photography are low skilled jobs, with minimal pay and long hours. Over years system became ruthlessly efficient to extract value from people.
Good luck replacing that with expensive AI developers to produce fake stuff.
I have no knowledge of the skill involved in (real life) modelling, but I do know the skill involved in professional photography is a lot higher than I fully understand.
For most of us, photography is just point the phone and tap the screen, without really giving much thought to lighting (colour/s, fill/spot combinations), scene composition, lenses, and probably a lot of things I don’t even have names for given the stuff I’ve listed is stuff I only know about from 3D modelling.
And conversely, the end users of a future AI synth of a model won’t be paying directly for expensive AI developers, any more than the average visitor of thispersondoesnotexist.com
>I have no knowledge of the skill involved in (real life) modelling, but I do know the skill involved in professional photography is a lot higher than I fully understand.
Yes, but there's no shortage of people who know all the involved stuff...
High-skill as in "you need to know lotsa stuff", yes.
High-skills as in "the skills are rare, and require a special degree or years or training", no.
They're not that rare (there's an overabundance of both skilled and non-skilled photographers), and they're not that hard to pick up (to the point that 18 year olds can know all there is to it with a little determination and practice).
Or let's just say that "high skill" is relative, and being a pro photographer is hardly like being a pro coder or a surgeon...
> there’s an overabundance of ... skilled photographers
I’m really not sure this is the case. I know more about cinematography than photography (I direct) but here in China a decent cinematographer can charge for a day what some workers might earn in a year. And you can tell the difference between their work and someone cheaper. That would suggest to me their skills are rare.
> and being a pro photographer is hardly like being a pro coder
This is where I strongly disagree. Becoming good at composition, setting up shots, etc is an art and can take a lifetime to perfect. No less high skill than programming.
High-skill usually implies that some sort of specialized training or schooling is required. Working an espresso bar is also a delicate skill, but no one calls baristas high-skilled workers.
Simple. The model can be the last part of a production pipeline in meatspace that gets replaced. There's a lot of post production that happens after a model shoot.
Render the clothes on the model before production to test demand. Render the model in the outfit the customer has in their cart right now.
Good luck replacing that with expensive AI developers to produce fake stuff.