Short YouTube monologue by Areeb Mirza questioning whether AI-altered/generated imagery still counts as photography. The speaker contrasts traditional effortful photography and skillful Photoshop work with new, widely accessible AI tools that can dramatically change images, and asks whether this trend is unfair to photographers and makes photography lazy. He frames it as an open question and invites comments.
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Question to all the photographers. What is a photo? Let me explain. So AI has been picking up quite some bit and the pace it's growing in is becoming harder and harder to extinguish of what a good photo is. If people now can take a picture of their backyards, draw a circle around the sky and fence and type in, add cool stuff, and AI imagines them in an Amazon forest with tigers around, like, do we appreciate imagery like this? Seems kind of unfair to me to those who actually do go the extra mile to get that perfect composition. Does it make photography lazy? Like, oh, I'll just add in a lighthouse in this image later to make it look more cool. You know what? I'll also change the sky and you know what? And before you know it, the whole photo is now, AI, listen, I'm not complaining about it. This is the world we live in now. And this is the genuine question I had. Photoshop has always existed and usually took some skill to do these type of things, but if it's accessible to the global market, things get a little more confusing. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
