Is AI the end of photography as we know it?

[@TheVerge]

Is promptography the beginning or the end of an era?

[@OneAndOnlySurge]

@7:45 - I'm stopping you right there. I consider myself a photographic artist not a photographer mainly because I wanted to escape what I consider the banality that is the purely technical conversations that photographers must entertain. I graduated with the highest honors from art school so I know it's possible to conceptualize a body of work without the technical rearing its tedious head at every turn. I will be damned if I "need to" start giving the full itinerary to my viewers' on their trips through my art. No. I'll give them some layovers and some cash, but that's it.

[@sagefaribole]

no

[@SurrealExposure12]

@@OneAndOnlySurgeso much text to say that you cannot shoot good images with just a camera and some film. But need some machine with stolen art to help out and make it easy

[@TWEAKER01]

Obviously it's just a beginning. As he clearly stated when rejecting the award, AI imagery is simply, objectively, *not* photography.

[@smug_slime]

If "promptography" competition ever be a thing it would be funny if real photography is the one winning instead.

[@BryceDriesenga]

Ugh, these cheater analog photographers coming into real AI promptography competitions and trying to pass off their one step click-of-a-shutter-button images as real promptography. Disgusting.

[@XartiXV]

Would be a disaster, if no one, except the judges, know what is the real picture and what is not.

[@primeryai]

​@@BryceDriesenga👌

[@SpeakingJargon]

His chess metaphor is really thought-provoking, imo. I am interested to see what the creative output of kids who grow up with access to this kind of technology will be. This may be too optimistic, but it would be really exciting to see kids using the low-effort output of playing with AI as inspiration for their artistic development, rather than an endpoint in of itself.

[@andregroc]

I think a lot of people stopped playing chess, so I don't think it's a great one. There's also the famous case where the go master retired after losing for the AI.

[@keithfield]

Actually, the game of chess is more popular then ever, due in part, by AI. Photography also spurred the development of impressionism and abstract expressionism in painting, since the camera could render scenes more accurately. As a result, painters took on new challenges. These new ways of seeing probably wouldn't have happened if Photography had never come around. New ideas, new technologies can create a positive feedback loop, rather than an ending. New art forms are born out of older ones. Photography never replaced Painting, they just grew in different directions. @@andregroc

[@dibbidydoo4318]

@@andregroc Lots of people kept playing chess and the average chess player gotten better. The same has happened with Go.

[@andregroc]

@@dibbidydoo4318 you have a fair point. Was just trying to say that AI can indeed take the fun out for some people. Especially people at the top of the craft.

[@n337speak]

Appreciate you looking at this with an open mind. This was a really thought provoking piece.

[@SaschaPallenberg]

Whatever format Becca comes up with... it always makes my day. Thank you for another inspiring, open minded and revealing video!

[@mars_hikes967]

This is just so good. There are not many tech people here who even come close. Becca = Taylor Swift in tech.

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

Just the beginning of a new era in Photography, and new categories of photography. In the end, art is simply an extension of the mind.

[@TWEAKER01]

except - objectively speaking - it's *not* photography. It can be art, but it's not photography.

[@cousefirst1351]

Really interesting and unique topic here. I never realized AI art was this complex

[@dannyomo]

good to see a photographer try their hand at creating similar images and realize it's *not* actually easy if you have a destination in mind. If you just want to click the button and go with what comes up, sure, it's easy. If you have a creative vision to express, it takes skill and practice, like anything else.

[@sabed7]

I think we are in an inflection point..What Boris said in correct...there is place for both AI generated pics and physically shot pics

[@BryceDriesenga]

"Going forward, it's going to be important that everybody knows how the images that they're viewing were created." To an extent, I agree. People, in general, shouldn't be trying to pass AI generated images off as analog photography, for example. But, I think it's totally context dependent on whether it's important or "required" for an artist to disclose their creative process. In some situations, I think it's still totally valid, as it has been in the past, for an artist to keep their exact process as a mystery.

[@OneAndOnlySurge]

I consider myself a photographic artist not a photographer mainly because I wanted to escape what I consider the banality that is the purely technical conversations that photographers must entertain. I graduated with the highest honors from art school so I know it's possible to conceptualize a body of work without the technical rearing its tedious head at every turn. I will be damned if I "need to" start giving the full itinerary to my viewers' on their trips through my art. No. I'll give them some layovers and some cash, but that's it.

[@SurrealExposure12]

@@OneAndOnlySurgehurr durr, go shoot some film and stop crying

[@steveurmah]

Thanks Becca, very nice video! Boris seems really clear-minded about this.

[@anerdwitdacamera204]

There should be a new category for the AI-generated

[@jamessderby]

Generative AI or GenAI is what it's called.

[@I.____.....__...__]

@@jamessderby Of course it already exists. EVERYTHING _already_ exists. With over 8 billion people in the world, NO thought it original, someone else always already thought of it. 🤷

[@jamessderby]

@@I.____.....__...__ yes

[@cnl1213]

Rejecting a prestigious award to reveal that u fooled the judges is such a flex. May be it's a frivolous pursuit anyway. I am sure there is an argument on privilege in there somewhere.

[@AiguilleVoodoo]

It would be pretty easy to do with plagiarism. Happens all the time, in fact. The judges role is not to judge whether the creation process was authentic so I don't think he really proved any point

[@primeryai]

They knew it was AI generated... I don't get the whole "fooling" narrative

[@tobisonbrown]

Fascinating. Oh wait you need more words for the algorithm. Nailed it.

[@cadenchurchill4296]

Love videos like this! Keep up the excellent work!

[@tianrun_li.3dm]

Babe wake up! Another Becca verge video just dropped

[@TepesLucian]

Everything about AI sounds super promissing till you remember we live in a late stage capitalism era where this tool will be probably exploited to cut labor / creative cost even more.

[@ijiikieru]

*late stage fiat.

[@ultrastrategyman4805]

Don't fear tech, fear the ones who owns it.

[@tinmank]

Promtographer. Neat. now we have a new word.

[@EmilTheoneandonly]

Brilliant artist, brilliant subject

[@neon1sky]

How can one get access to that discord server or bot?

[@matthewkeating-od6rl]

Great vid

[@draken5379]

Great Video

[@biocykle]

The winning picture didn't "fool" the jury though. The artist did not try to pass it into the competition as a photograph, but as an AI generated image.

[@HokgiartoSaliem]

How to create 12, 18, 24, 36, etc megapixel from ai generated?

[@I.____.....__...__]

Step 1: Wait until tools to do that are created. Step 2: Use it. Step 3: Profit?

[@rat_world]

stable diffusion webui like automatic1111 or invokeai

[@Stranger2Sum]

5:13 🤯

[@alecubudulecu]

The only problem with his whole grandstanding rejection …. It was an AI Art category of the competition. What he won was in the field of ai art generation.

[@nikolass83gianni]

Great video ... Thanks ... 😎

[@CancunMimosa]

“AI” is such a watered down term. People have become so lazy with reporting technology they use it for any step taken by a human with a computer now. Quite sad when considering AI is a topic that vastly predates our current history with computers in the 19th and 20th centuries.

[@samanjj]

Call it Applied Statistics

[@mitchellsteindler]

You have to just accept it, it's not going back the other way.

[@dibbidydoo4318]

is X the end of Y as we know it? if it's a question then No.

[@browniebizzle]

Interesting

[@insom_anim]

so this is basically an ad for midjourney and how to use it then?

[@luciliodesign6237]

This is why I buy Data

[@Mooooty]

Adapt. Evolve. Or Go Extinct.

[@hanve]

❤❤❤

[@zuplaton]

It feels me with dread, not with wonder. Still, like Becky says, can't look away

[@I.____.....__...__]

Did cameras fill you with dread when they came out? Oh won't someone please think of all those poor painters! 😲

[@zuplaton]

@@I.____.....__...__ I know, new technologies disrupt others, the engine, the car, the radio, photography, moving pictures, talking movies, TV, the internet... They probably filled others with dread. In the case of AI, it's a cognitive dread for me. What if I can never trust another image, video, audio, or whatever?

[@SurrealExposure12]

@@I.____.....__...__the most delusional comparison of all time lmao. Sure bud

[@APaleDot]

Personally, I would describe it using the words of Brian Moriarty: "That sweet, sweet fusion of wonder and fear, irresistible attraction and soul-numbing dread known as awe." AI is both awe-some and awe-ful. A bit like nuclear technology in that way.

[@nowbiodun]

I won't consider AI-generated images as real art. A new category needs to be created for "Promptography" or whatever this is.

[@ChristopherNichols]

Probably because you are confusing the terms art and craft

[@AlmightyUniden]

Art is art as long as it makes you think or feel. Whatever the medium. Whether you put more value into one creative process over another is up to you

[@clololown]

its art

[@jayram1855]

Well these tools are not cheap 😅 we can say that.

[@ShreyasYD]

Neither are great cameras…

[@BryceDriesenga]

$10/month for Midjourney's basic plan ain't too bad

[@handam0nium803]

If you have a GPU with 8 GB of VRAM then you can probably run StableDiffusion on your own machine for free.

[@jamessderby]

AI art is Rad

[@elessal]

where the AI is trained matters not. artists are never expected to pay to the hundreds of previous artists who inspire their styles and methods. you can't demand AI to me regulated on something humans are not. luddites must understand that they either join progress or are left behind.

[@TheManinblack1011]

Couldn't have fooled me

[@SaltSeasDev]

We shall see if you are still smiling when the Verge replaces you with AI, Becca.

[@rasras21a]

This is not art, this is sick.

[@primeryai]

Why so?

[@caymanharas9914]

Nobody cares about what tools an artist uses, people care about the end result. Ai is a tool, and hopefully, it replaces people's jobs so we can do more important things.

[@SurrealExposure12]

Absolutely completely wrong on so many levels. To actual real connoisseurs of art, the medium matters so so much.

[@dibbidydoo4318]

@@SurrealExposure12 who are these real connoisseurs of art? people who like what you like?

[@caymanharas9914]

@@SurrealExposure12 That's why there is 'medium' sections in museums? Even the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam had no information on mediums.. This comment/reply is all emotional response, and no facts.

[@sagefaribole]

nope

[@user-il9qo4qc4n]

lol nah

[@jdi010]

If he fool someone then he's no artist

[@thedarkangel613]

what are you talking about?!!! art is all about fooling people into caring about things that are not real 2d things.

[@creeder99]

He didn't accept the reward for it he just want to show the possibilities

[@thim0]

they make this sound complicated. It's really not. You could be making those "poetic" things tomorrow. Artists are good at making things sounds complicated. This is SUPER SIMPLE! If you can make similar art in a week, the art has little value, as it's ubiquitous.

[@thatphokingguy]

How do we find the Seed values in photoshop generative Ai or fire fly?