A photographer in Minneapolis
Many photographers and artists see “Generative AI” as a ripoff, a way for non-creatives to generate images by combining and altering copyrighted works in a way that’s obviously totally derivative without quite seeming to be a “copy”. But what’s really going on behind the curtain?
If you’re a photographer, or someone who likes photography, you know we’re in the middle of a firestorm called “generative AI”. The ethical, legal and financial implications of software-generated imagery are the subjects of hot-burning controversy online, in corporate boardrooms and in the courts.
Continue reading “AI and Christopher Columbus”The other day, on a photography forum, a guy asked if there was a point-and-shoot camera he could buy that would take pictures as good as his smartphone. Yes. We have reached that point.
There’s a thread right now over at DPReview: “how do you accept that nobody cares about your photography?” I can’t answer that, but it got me thinking about a different one: how will we get anyone to even see our photography, when we’re losing photo bandwidth?
Continue reading “Our Photo Bandwidth Is Declining”