The image of the young lads over the hosing estate and the guy in the shop with the blurred background are insane tho.

👍🏻 Nice video. Honestly I don’t even know if I’ve made my mind up about it all myself yet … I’m trying to stay on top of it just to keep up more than anything. But you’re dead right - it can never do genuine documentary, thankfully, which is kind of my favourite stuff to shoot and to look at. Cheers for the shout. You’re welcome for the pics, I’m hopelessly addicted to it so no doubt I’ll keep playing about but I dunno if I’ll be looking back at he images in the same way I look at the shots I took of my kids birth or even daft stuff like them eating their breakfast. The emotional connection is what makes all art valuable.

Well done. Really enjoyed this.

It’s like looking through a window pane with many of those pictures, there is a distance and missing emotion. Some look much to smooth, others reveal the fake, if you know the originals (like the Vivian Maier style) And yes, much of this, is what many people like to see and don’t notice this window pane and missing emotion. Hunting for likes makes many blind and the world is yearning for for fakes. As a photographer with a view on many things behind the scene I am not afraid about AI, rather more afraid about the humans who avoid their emotions and try to hide behind the virtual reality. I even think, this development is a great chance for those photographers, who do their work with passion and empathy. Virtual pictures without real stories behind might be impressive like a movie sometimes is, but real life is something different and can only be shown by photographers who see more levels but a catchy motive.

Another outstanding video Eddy

Gave me shivers!! It’s insane how accurate it’s getting, this wigs me out

Really insightful- ten minutes well spent watching this. Got me thinking - thanks

This is crazy! 🤯

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didn't expect this to go that deep but when you started with the watermelon analogy i was all for it. my super summed up take is, on top of seconding everything you said, i lowkey (joking) believe we are AI. i mean this as a random internet thought but the idea of our existence being a simulation, like a Civilization game, starts for some reason to take some strenght for me, therefore art itself has some meaning to us that we've given to it. thus we cannot try to compare it to AI generated "art". quite hard to explain myself on a short comment, but on top of everything i just wanna clarify i'm against AI when it comes to end product in art.

Incredible what's happening in the AI space at the moment, the designer in me is excited to potentially use this to create storyboards for creative but the photography side isn't! Maybe there will be a software that can differentiate AI generated images vs normal and let people know 👀

There are definitely two (or more) sides to this. More productivity, better quality, faster accomplishments could be beneficial. The thing that makes me worried about it is how many people don't want to pay for experience anymore because someone without knowledge can just ask AI to do something for them. I write on the side and have seen too many requests for work using AI with low pay rates because they expect it to do most of the work and you just get a few bucks for steering the boat. The scary part of it is when it is going to be used to fake content. Pictures, deep fake videos, even AI movies are coming. Forget green screen as it's not going to be needed in a short time in the future.

If clients get lazy and tight with their money, then yes. It won’t ruin photography for yourself as AI won’t take your holiday photos. AI won’t affect you as a photographer making photos of things you love. AI will only benefit clients who don’t want to pay anymore but AI can’t shoot a commercial job. AI only makes what you could call, stock photos.

With AI photography you cannot trust any news photo going back at least 10 years (unless you are the photographer or know them personally) as we know gov likes to meddle in news and they always have access to tech decade before civilians. Think of all those recent early days of photography invention photos suddenly flooding the internet- is it AI or secret photo stash a human had?