Just a random thought for the morning.
Watermarks used to be the way to go, to stop people from just taking your images and using them however they want. They’re also used to send sample images and then ask for payment.
With AI advancing, it’s very likely going to get easier for the layperson to click a button and have AI remove your watermark.
How do you plan to safeguard against this?
99% of my revenue comes from paid gigs, I think it’s wasted energy trying to protect my images from being stolen, it’s 1% of my revenue and even then, I’m basically doing mental gymnastics to prevent the slim chance that MAYBE someone or an AI steals an image and uses it, and that same person was going to be a paying cx otherwise
I’d rather just spend my extra brain power and time playing a game or working out