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The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli reimagined with more than two dozen Firefly AI prompts in Photoshop.
Illustration: 731; Source: Alamy; Adobe generative AI
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Last fall, Adobe offered select photographers from its vast network of seasoned professionals the opportunity to shoot 1,000 photos of bananas. For $60. Another commission called for snapshots of flags “in real-life situations,” and one paying $80 sought hundreds of close-ups of mouths chewing food. One assignment for pet portraits requested a minimum of 500 JPEGs of various dog and cat breeds, specifying that none should be shown “wearing any clothing.”