ThisPersonDoesNotExist

AI-generated stock media site with no supply-side costs

Inspired by thispersondoesnotexist.com, Shaan pitches disrupting stock-photo/sound/video sites by programmatically generating images, icons, sounds, and videos on demand from a user's keywords. Because there are no photographers or videographers to pay, margins would be far better; Sam counters that with no defensibility it could be a race to the bottom.

“this means that somebody can basically disrupt all the stocks, the stock websites, because you can just programmatically generate anything anybody searches for. You can create— you can have the computer basically make 500 variants of whatever they search for based on their keywords, and then they'll pick from them, and then you're like, cool. Those are all saved.”

Steal thisGenerate stock images/sounds/video on demand from keywords with AI; zero supply-side payouts means fatter margins.