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Environmental impact of gen AI pales in comparison to the environmental impact of alternatively making all the generated pieces manually. Let's say Shutterstock switches purely to genAI images trained on their own licensed stock images. Do you think their total carbon output will go up or down now that they've stopped doing photoshoots of people and objects in seemingly random situations?