The AI thread

[Tin Can]

Soon no physical photo or Digi needed

AI will send it to your brain

We have been able to that for 2 decades

Perhaps AI will enhance my already vivid dream

We also may all be the same 'creature' as we just think we are autonomous



Bugs

[faberryman]

No. It is that I can no longer have any faith that the image I am looking at is not an AI illustration.

And that just happened a couple of months ago when AI image generators became a hot topic? Before that you were good to go? No problem with digital images and programs like Photoshop?

[LabRat]

I can't help but feel like this is the laziest tool ever thrust into the hands of wannabe "artists" whose efforts to craft imagery are no more than a few lines of text prompt, while the machine does all the work for them. We will always find new ways to amuse ourselves to death.[/QUOTE]

Ahhhhhh, this is painters were saying about photography 100+ years ago...

Steve K

[ic-racer]

Typing a request for an image to the AI machine is no different than pressing a button on the camera. I think it takes even more thought and is more time consuming.
Like somehow you 'own' the camera's image, or you somehow created it? Nonsense. They are both machines with a user.

[Randy]

What about at a race track? A photo finish could be legit---or it could be AI generated---

But I don't go to the races, so I don't care

Or political races influenced by AI generated proof of misdeeds? This swings both ways.

But both sides have been lying to the voters for generations. People vote for one side or the other seemingly regardless of what the truth is.

...photography has long been in the service of providing reliable answers.

But we have had photoshop for what, 25-30 years? I can still take just about anyones face and put it on someone elses body in my trusty PS7, and do it well enough that most everyone I show it to is amazed.

I don't know, perhaps my honey bourbon has taken the edge off, I'm just not concerned right now.

[Eric Woodbury]

AI leaves room for those of us with images that are less than perfect.

[Maris Rusis]

AI has nothing to do with the pictures I make. They take the form of objects bearing marks as a consequence of being struck by light. The well known process used was invented in, and works perfectly in, a world without electricity.

[jnantz]

Have you ever done the drive-thru at a fast food joint, driven up to the menu and speaker box, looked over the choices, ordered, say, a hamburger, picked up your order at the window, driven back around to the menu and speaker box, and compared the hamburger shown on the menu and the hamburger in your bag? AI in photography is just a variation on a theme that has been going on since Hippolyte Bayard debuted Self Portrait of a Drowned Man in 1839.

we live in a post truth world

[Michael R]

we live in a post truth world

It has always been that way though.

[Tin Can]

Humans are tribes of 100, any excess is forced out