Phil Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 Food for thought. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-stock-photographers-await-their-fate-under-generative-ai-822d1e6a?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKuzmin Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 AI-generated food images look tastier than real ones 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 (edited) 2 hours ago, IKuzmin said: AI-generated food images look tastier than real ones Interesting article. It sounds like the food porn industry is going to explode thanks to AI. A similar argument was made years ago about wildlife imagery. With so many "stunning" wildlife images out there, it can give people the impression that animals and their habitats aren't really endangered. And then there are all those hyped-up travel industry images that lure people to over-visited places thereby promoting destructive mass tourism. It's already an old story that promises to get even worse with AI. End of today's rant... 🙃 Edited May 3 by John Mitchell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 (edited) Images of real people in a real place in a real event at a specific date cannot be created by AI. If AI kills off microstock 'creative' images of red peppers and the like who really cares? Edited May 3 by geogphotos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 2 hours ago, IKuzmin said: AI-generated food images look tastier than real ones The problem with the first example, it looks like the chocolate syrup is on the outside of the glass. I know it will keep getting better though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Ore Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 11 minutes ago, John Mitchell said: And then there are all those hyped-up travel industry images that lure people to over-visited places thereby promoting destructive mass tourism. Why I didn't go to San Juan del Sur or take pictures in Granada, that Potemkin Village of a 19th Century city rebuilt on the ruins of an older city pretending to be 15th and 16th Century. Some tourism is good, but the problem with mass tourism is the country it's happening in is often just a backdrop. Nobody talks to the locals except to order meals and drinks. I like taking pictures of the Jinotega I've been living in for almost 14 years, even the days like this: My brother refused to take a print of this back to the US because he didn't want to explain it to either Nicaraguan or US customs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 12 minutes ago, geogphotos said: Images of real people in a real place in a real event at a specific date cannot be created by AI. If AI kills off microstock 'creative' images of red peppers and the like who really cares? I have images of both red and green peppers that have done quite well on Alamy. 😞 Get your point of course, although even real people, places, and events aren't safe from AI duplication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Ore Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 12 minutes ago, geogphotos said: Images of real people in a real place in a real event at a specific date cannot be created by AI. If AI kills off microstock 'creative' images of red peppers and the like who really cares? TinEye has caught some fake atrocity pictures,recent and from six years ago. They were not what the caption said they were. But people have been altering photos since the 19th Century. There are two copies of a Billy the Kid photo. One was altered to make him look worse. In the other, his face is not altered. It's just easier with Photoshop, and maybe easier yet with AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted May 3 Author Share Posted May 3 Just now, John Mitchell said: Get your point of course, although even real people, places, and events aren't safe from AI duplication. A specific date would appear to be out of AI's ability to recreate at present. That's only until a time-machine is incorporated into AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKuzmin Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 2 hours ago, geogphotos said: Images of real people in a real place in a real event at a specific date cannot be created by AI. If AI kills off microstock 'creative' images of red peppers and the like who really cares? Me. I'd rather try to photograph red peppers as 'creative' as I can than 'real people in a real place in a real event at a specific date'. I know that the latter can also be photographed creative but that's not what i like and want to do. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 My commissioned assignment work is pretty safe from A.I. as nearly all my shoots are of real people and real places for magazines. My biggest danger is the print media dying, I am just hoping for six more years of paid shoots, if that is possible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) 16 hours ago, geogphotos said: If AI kills off microstock 'creative' images of red peppers and the like who really cares? 14 hours ago, IKuzmin said: I'd rather try to photograph red peppers as 'creative' as I can than 'real people in a real place in a real event at a specific date'. My indoor shots outsell my outdoor shots 3 to 1, so it's going to do me no good at all. Agree that AI is unlikely to be used for outdoor people shots of specific places. I suspect AI images will take over a lot of concept shots. But I also suspect there will be a backlash and a drive by people for more authentic images. Let's see... Edited May 4 by Steve F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 17 hours ago, Michael Ventura said: The problem with the first example, it looks like the chocolate syrup is on the outside of the glass. I know it will keep getting better though. Yes, weird. The other problem is that some of the photographs in that piece are rather poorly executed. Even I, with my two 200Ws monoblocs and tabletop, could do better with the chips and the bread, at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve F Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 6 minutes ago, spacecadet said: Yes, weird. The other problem is that some of the photographs in that piece are rather poorly executed. Even I, with my two 200Ws monoblocs and tabletop, could do better with the chips and the bread, at least. That's true, I thought the 'natural' images were poorly executed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKuzmin Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) deleted Edited May 4 by IKuzmin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 5 hours ago, Steve F said: I suspect AI images will take over a lot of concept shots. But I also suspect there will be a backlash and a drive by people for more authentic images. Let's see... You might be right about that. Remember driver-less cars? We were all supposed to be not-driving them by now. 😁 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca Ore Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 One thing the AI absolutists don't get is understanding how human brains work in the split between craving the familiar and craving the novel. A-Ha, the Norwegian band had to do several different takes and videos to get something phenomenal out of Take On Me. People don't want more of the same all the time. AI can replicate, but not come up with something passionately new because that's not its source material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 So now Adobe tosses petrol on the AI/photographer fire.... https://petapixel.com/2024/05/03/adobe-throws-photographers-under-the-bus-again-skip-the-photoshoot/ 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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