ngl midjourney and nano banana for thumbnails and product shots is kinda overrated. everyone's output looks the same plastic glow and people clock it instantly. i still shoot the product on my phone by a window and only use ai for cleanup, am i wrong or is everyone just scared of the uncanny look

Duplicates sneak in when the same person arrives through two routes, or when a step runs twice after a failure. Decide what makes a record the same before you build. An email address works for many cases, a phone number for others, and sometimes you need both. Search for an existing record first, then update it instead of creating a new one. Make steps safe to repeat. If a step runs again, it should leave the same result rather than add another copy. Run a regular check for near matches, such as small spelling differences, and merge them with care. How do you decide that two records are the same?

Who here is using Veo, Kling, or Runway for more than just a quick test clip, and where does it break first for you: keeping a character consistent across shots, getting motion that doesn't look floaty, or the cost of rerolling until one clip works? Curious which one you'd fix first if you could only pick one.

trying to figure out how people are wrapping an ai tool as their own product and charging for it. like a little app or bot folks pay monthly for. what's actually selling for u right now?

paying a photographer for headshots and product shots is overrated fr. ai does most of it for a fraction of the cost if u know how to prompt it. most people just prompt it wrong, get ugly results, and quit. am i crazy or is the photographer thing just habit?