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Fun fact: AI creates about 34 million images every single day
Let’s face it — humans love creating. Whether it’s cave paintings, oil masterpieces, or posting selfies with too many filters, we’ve always found ways to express ourselves. But now? Now we have AI doing the heavy lifting. In fact, AI image generation is so popular that it’s starting to feel like these algorithms are the world’s busiest artists. Move over Picasso, the bots are here.
A Numbers Game
Here’s a fun fact: AI creates about 34 million images every single day. That’s 1.4 million images per hour. Roughly 23,333 images every single minute. By the time you’ve read this far, AI has probably whipped up a couple thousand more. Somewhere, a server farm is sweating. (Source)
What’s more, over 15 billion images have been generated since 2022. That’s billion with a “B.” For perspective, that’s enough images to wallpaper the moon (don’t fact-check that). And most of these are based on Stable Diffusion, the reigning champ in text-to-image magic. (Source)
Here’s a glimpse of what happens when AI gets creative — from surreal cityscapes to glowing human abstractions. Is panda playing poker? No not this time, but it’s still worth a look!
The Big Players
When it comes to AI art, the playground isn’t empty. There are some clear favorites leading the charge:
- Adobe Firefly: Generated 1 billion images in its first three months. Adobe, proving yet again that they’re not just for PDFs.
- MidJourney: With 15 million users (and counting), it’s clocked 964 million images as of late 2023. Some say it’s where art students and marketers meet to party.
- DALL·E 2: OpenAI’s baby cranks out 2 million images daily, or about as many as humans post selfies on Instagram. Coincidence? Probably not.
Why So Many?
The reasons for this explosion in AI art are as varied as the images themselves. Some use it to brainstorm, others to decorate their PowerPoint slides, and a few brave souls rely on it to decorate their living rooms. And then there’s the internet crowd that loves asking AI to create bizarre crossovers like “pandas playing poker on Mars.”
