looked at how many AI images have been generated by DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe Firefly and compared it to how many photographs were taken since photography was invented circa 1826., it took photography until 1975 to produce as many photos.The study draws on OpenAI’s reporting that users generate more than two million images on its DALL-E 2 platform which they estimated to be 916 million images generated in roughly 15 months.
Meanwhile, they took Midjourney’s assertion that its server receives 20 to 40 jobs per second to estimate that its 15 million registered users create 2.5 million images daily, resulting in 964 million images in total since its launch in July 2022.to judge because it is an open-source software meaning multiple platforms and apps harness its synthesizing power.
Plus, digital photography had not been invented in 1975. And analog photography is a laborious process and is nothing like as straightforward as whipping out a smartphone to take a snap or even opening up an AI image generator to create an imaginative picture.found that 1.8 trillion photos are taken each year. That’s a staggering 196 million photos taken per hour.