The Irritating Downfall of Photography

[@thaticelandicguy]

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[@michaelboyle-ms2id]

AI has the opportunity to really help humanity but at the same time, it’s sucking the soul out of art some times

[@thaticelandicguy]

😂 it’s new and fun to play with, it will settle down and help us out tremendously (or kill us)

[@michaelboyle-ms2id]

@ I’m always a little bit nice to ChatGPT so I’m treated nice when they take over 😭

[@leosdad7274]

@@thaticelandicguy I completely agree with you. With some regulation, including tagging AI-generated content, we can create space for both AI creators and traditional photography crafted with dedication and effort 😉. The photo industry will undoubtedly evolve, making it more affordable, faster, and accessible to everyone. However, there will always be room for the personal touch-storytelling with human emotions that no AI can truly replicate.

[@thaticelandicguy]

@@michaelboyle-ms2id lol I do the same, always say "thank you" and "please" just in case 😂

[@leighhaynes]

Orange jeep looks great in the snow.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Thank you and I agree! ☺️

[@thaticelandicguy]

What are your thoughts on this my friends? 🤔

[@WMantus]

AI really is garbage slop and I hate all the lazy, unempathetic people not caring about its horrible ethics.

[@robertocoladomenico5426]

asking them to stop is like asking a thief to stop stealing... hopefully people will ask for more clarity in the future. Hopefully.

[@thaticelandicguy]

@@robertocoladomenico5426 yea we can't fight it that way, and i'm not sure, maybe it's just a phase we need to go though haha like so many other things

[@SakuraiKasumi]

I know the problem with such images all too well. There are many pictures of the city I live in. Many people don’t even try, and the pictures are really bad, and you can clearly see that. Unfortunately, too many people think these images are real. But it wouldn't even take two seconds to figure out that the pictures are fake. But hey, I'm currently in Iceland and I'm having fun taking pictuers of the landscape, etc.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea the miss use of AI generated images is what bothers me so much. But maybe it's a phase like HDR photos was? 😅 Btw where in Iceland are you rn? And enjoy your stay it's a pretty place!

[@SakuraiKasumi]

@@thaticelandicguy Right now, I´m in Reykjavik.

[@thaticelandicguy]

@@SakuraiKasumi Enjoy! The weather is nuts right? Saw that all flights in and out of iceland is canceled lol, classic iceland haha

[@SakuraiKasumi]

@@thaticelandicguy Yes, the weather is totally crazy. The last few days have been snow, rain, and storms, and today it's 8 degrees. I’ve seen the flight situation too. Tomorrow will be interesting when I have to fly again. Yesterday my flight was cancelled, and now it’s back on time."

[@martinpickard5818]

There will come a day when photographers will just shoot for the own enjoyment and peace of mind…..sadly….wedding togs and sports togs MAY survive….i hate AI….

[@thaticelandicguy]

😂, yea I think a lot of commercial job will go, especially lower end commercial shoots and stuff. But as I said in the video, I don’t hate AI, I use it daily, but using it like this here is quite lame

[@NilsnVan]

New conspiracy, That Icelandic guy's beard is ai generated :D 🤣 JKJK

[@thaticelandicguy]

😂😂😂

[@NilsnVan]

@@thaticelandicguy haha, i had to!

[@kevinsim1514]

Please do a collaboration with the Camera Conspiracies guy! Canadians are friendly and used to the cold.

[@thaticelandicguy]

@ Love his channel!

[@Hobbies4Hire]

Great job on the video Guy! Thanks for making it.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Thank you for watching! ☺️

[@GrimdarkKing]

Imagine back in the day when the camera showed up and people started gravitating towards getting portraits taken with a camera instead of having portraits painted by an oil painter. The painters must have been feeling & saying things similar to you. And guess what? They were right! Kinda. Think about it... Nearly nobody has either a single professional oil portrait of a family member or their entire family painted by an artist like back in the day. Pro portrait painters charge $10,000 to $50,000 to do things like... oil portraits of CEOs of major companies. So they DO still exist. But MOST people have photographs on their walls of their family. Even lower middle class people can afford to pay the gal at their church to go to the local park and take their fall family photos. So yes...the portrait painters got pushed to the side and eclipsed by photographers. Now photographers are experiencing a similar kind of thing and are having similar feelings. But my guess is that 100 years from now people will STILL be hiring real photographers to take real photos of all kinds of things. Families. Seniors graduating high school. Weddings. Real estate. It's really only the fine art photographers who are in danger. And that was a business that was so unlikely to see any success that you had as much of a likelihood of becoming financially secure by playing the lottery as being a landscape photographer. Even them though... their craft will evolve. It already has. Marke Adamus (I don't know the spelling) has said that his business is really a tourism business. He creates great photography but he's not trying to "sell" it. Either as prints or as licensed work. He just uses it to attract upper middle class people who want to take those SAME kinds of photographs to his company who takes them on tours so that they themselves can take those kinds of pictures. Those people will still be in demand. The people putting out AI photos will not be able to create that kind of business. (Also...they can't filter by meta data because.... not all photos have it. It can be stripped out. I wouldn't be surprised if it IS stripped out by default on most image generators)

[@thaticelandicguy]

This was a fantastic comment, thank you king! I couldn't agree more, I think photographing isn't dying, it's just changing, and lots of lower and mid tier commercial jobs will go away. Simply because using AI is quicker and more cost effective. But as you said premium will always be there. Well it's here to stay, so we might as well get used to it, and I'm fine with it. This video wasn't made to say "AI IS SO BAD IT'S RUINING EVERYTHING" I don't really think AI is the problem, it's the miss use. But with time we will learn to use it responsibly. And who know's maybe it's just a phase like the HDR photo era 😂

[@martinwikestad]

Thought: is this “pollution” of the internet going to lead to more and more people moving away from it? In other words: will printed photographs become more and more popular again?

[@thaticelandicguy]

Uhm greatly question, what do you think? In general I think AI will take over lots of lower end photography job, like simpler and cheaper commercial jobs. Simple because it’s more cost and time effective. But real photography will be premium. So maybe prints will go up? In the case of this video, then I do think that it’s super irritating that it’s so many photos claiming to be from real places, but they are not, and getting so much likes and shares 😂

[@nathanoaksford7728]

I agree. It’s already hard to stand out in photography because so many do it, and now competing with fake photos makes it even harder. It makes even amazing real photos fall short because it’s competing with perfect fake. Back in the day doing urbex photos and city photos if you didn’t use HDR you couldn’t stand out. So real was weak. And now I dunno… it’s hard. Cheers -nmomacro nmophoto

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea I remember the HDR era, should maybe have mentioned it here. IT used to be such a big thing, and you couldn't stand out without it. But then it faded away, and maybe so will this?

[@LittleBricksCharityGuy]

The downfall of photography was. A decade ago. I owned a studio chain and even 10 years ago, dumb people taking crap photos and editing them to look like a Frankenstein version of the. Original. The moment photographers cared Less about getting settings Correct and making a Beautiful photo with the Camera, than editing it to look okay is when photography died. I sold my studios when the writing was on the wall.

[@QTLouie]

I think AI is gonna make stock photography a legacy “for fun” thing and will discourage people from getting into photography BUT it makes Wedding Photos and Real-Estate photos way easier to work with and edit.

[@pleclere]

Yes, any person can take great wedding pictures with their eye detection cameras and great software. Why pay professionals?

[@Vizible21]

​@@pleclere eye detection and software are tools of the photographer. What the f are you even saying?

[@QTLouie]

@@Vizible21 I would like to see him use a robot to take his wedding photos 😂😭 wedding photography, Real-Estate photography, Child Photos, Couple Photos ECT. Is something only a human can do because an AI would probably take very flat wide angle photos since that’s 99% of its training data. You can’t teach an AI how to take creative and cinematic photos. Not to mention a big reason why people hire a photographer is to get a “trained professional” to capture memories. It’ll be impossible to sell a woman who wants a “perfect wedding” or a man who wants cool biker photos of him on an AI Photographer. And I doubt that’ll change

[@thaticelandicguy]

I couldn't agree more! Lot's of lower and mid tier commercial jobs will be replaced, because it's easier, quicker and more cost effective then having a real person, or even a whole team do it. And if consumer can't even tell the difference then I don't see a world where companies won't use it. But as you said premium will always be there, and personal stuff too :) The world changes fast, btw thanks for the comment and sparking the conversation

[@pleclere]

@Vizible21 people no longer need to pay wedding photographers when guests at weddings have perfect cameras, including smartphones, to have sharp pictures, while photo apps can further improve the pictures. I agree, these are tools for photographers. But I've already been at weddings where guests were asked to upload the pictures they made to a website so a photo album could be created. Only in the church was a photographer needed as guests were not allowed to walk around to take pictures.

[@pleclere]

You forgot to mention Adobe that is the major force for AI to replace photographers. People will think that great pictures are AI generated, while average pictures will be made by humans. Recently, lI didn't like great pictures because, I thought probably they were AI generated. As there are so many pictures, I do not investigate them, they are nice, nothing more than that because, probably not real. The reality. Thus, enjoy taking pictures for yourself, and be lucky if you can sell a picture. The only solution is that any AI picture is marked as an AI picture, even when AI is only used to remove distractions. And then people will consider it as AI, thus not real.

[@thaticelandicguy]

great point, I know Benjamin Hardman, who is a fantastic photographer from Australia living in iceland, was accused of his photos being AI because they were to nice lol. He spends a lot of time in the arctic so his photos are really special.

[@brianrickey]

Just came across your channel for the first time. Good stuff. Cool Jeep! And you make some very valid points!

[@thaticelandicguy]

Thanks and welcome! :)

[@penkatadrums]

Hello, sir, this vlog footage looks so much like the Canon R6 mk2 with the clog colors and the wobbles from the IBIS... but I look at your gear page and it's says Sony? Is that true? :)

[@thaticelandicguy]

Sony A74 :)

[@penkatadrums]

@@thaticelandicguy Awesome, thanks! :)

[@Barry-Sweaty]

AI generated photos bad. AI noise reduction and subject recognition kinda cool. 😂

[@Marcus_Visbal]

Even if people aren’t claiming ai photos are real, ai is just a rip off of reality

[@Naswillshine]

You are so right! All we need is generative expand and fill (sparsely) 😅. It’s definitely an exhausting conversation.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Indeed it is, the miss use of this is quite irritating, but let's see how this plays out :)

[@LaFuenteOnFilm]

100% agree with this. Photography/videography never seemed more important than now in the new world of quick AI mockups.

[@thaticelandicguy]

agreed!

[@vandalpaulius]

This AI slop made me to follow specific artists more, be it photography, drawing or music. Back in the day I wouldn't listen to the whole album, but now I do, because somehow it made me value the human effort more. But I doubt this will be majority response, since I take photos as a hobby myself, so all AI slop hits like a train

[@thaticelandicguy]

yea make sense, human effort will be premium, and it kinda has been since machine started to mass produce. I mean human made handcrafts are higher value then mass produced machine made :)

[@dosfeos]

If I may ask what computer or laptop do you use for video editing ?

[@thaticelandicguy]

macbook m1 max 64gb :)

[@dosfeos]

@thaticelandicguy that's seems to be a popular choice. Thank you

[@krautstar8013]

I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and photography, not for AI to do my art and photography so that I can do my laundry and dishes. 🤣

[@thalleous]

a bit off topic, but do you think it's a good purchase a sony a7c with the tamaron 20-40 f2.8? i would mainly use it mainly for youtube vlogging and sotrytelling out in nature.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Never tried that tamron, but that looks like a solid setup ☺️

[@kurt7994]

I agree with ya, you hit the nail on the head.

[@thaticelandicguy]

☺️

[@BelaAcs-m6r]

If you are editing your images mostly with AI editing, the result is a false representation of the original image. Most competitions ask for the original RAW images. I got 28 points and first place in a CAPA street photography competition but they asked for the RAW and I got disqualified because I removed some dog shit. AI will take over a good portion of photography in a few years, no way around it. Anyway, billions of meaningless, pointless photographs litter the world every day and photography lost it's worthiness. 30 years ago, when I said "I'm a photographer", they said "Wooo, really", today everybody says, me too.

[@utahnl]

We're getting close to the singularity and even before achieving sentience it has already enslaved the masses, we're basically doomed.

Ten years ago: my hobbies are photography, 3D graphics, video editing. One day I will be able to make money with my skills. Now: awkward silence

[@thaticelandicguy]

😂

[@NinaandDaren]

Haha this was a refreshing take. Mixing humour with "back in my day" rant 😂😂😂

[@thaticelandicguy]

Like I’m old lol 😂

[@jamiecarter5291]

The problem isn’t so much AI (as much as I’m not a fan), it’s the misuse of it that is the issue for me. It also all depends what you want out of your photography - for me it is a hobby and I do it only for myself, if you need your photography to pay your bills, then life could get a bit more difficult. But then again, the huge influx of people putting “photography” at the end of their name because they have a camera and can hit the auto button on their iPhone, must be having just as much of an impact…

[@thaticelandicguy]

EXACTLY! I agree and this was the entire point of the video. For me Ai isn't the problem, but it's the missuse that irritates me so much

[@50mm_streets]

I Instagram already auto tags ai edited photos?

[@thaticelandicguy]

They used to do it, but not anymore I think? 🤔

[@50mm_streets]

@@thaticelandicguy interesting I just remember people doing videos complaining they used a healing brush and they were tagged as made with Ai. Any way love your content mate keep up the good work

[@thaticelandicguy]

@@50mm_streets Thank you! Well when I use generative fill and or expand or the healing brush it doesn't tagg my photos anymore. It used to, but it stopped.

[@MarcelSiderius]

'Adapt or Die' is at play here too. AI seems unstoppable, so try and work with it and embrace it. Like back in the day, with Vinyl Records and classic Film Camera's, real photos will become a 'niche-market'. New opportunities will appear and the general public might crave authenticity and 'reality' even more as AI progresses. I hope that ICELAND won't melt too much before I get to visit that seemingly beautiful place (opinion based on 'real' photographs from the past). Keep up the good work.

[@NorwayHikesTrails]

AI used right is OK, but not when it’s creating a lie of reality. Great topic 😊

[@lisap5615]

When you see something that is obviously AI generated and they are claiming it is real, it needs to be called out. I agree it should be labeled as AI.

[@GavinDavidson]

What is crazy is that people can't even tell the difference between ai and real imagery.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Honestly it’s pretty wild, but maybe most aren’t nerding over photos all day like we do? 😅

[@NoOverhead]

For me, it was last year when the aurora borealis made it historically south into the U.S. I spent hours outside in the cold on a lake in Iowa to grab some shots with my Sony 11M 1.8 (no luck) only to find thousands of AI-generated shots with tens of millions of views over the next week. Content will continue to be king. So, keep being you. At least for now....until AI-Generated Icelandic Guy Vlogs are available in 2027.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Lol AI gen Icelandic guy vlogs, NOT MADE BY ME 😂 but some one else, that would be insane haha

[@brandonabbott69]

Good video 👍 thanks u i tink u right

[@thaticelandicguy]

Thank you to for watching! 🙏

[@kErMTMaN]

Been a photographer since 2004 from film to dlsr to mirrorless.... but im not intimidated by A.I. because my passion is mine.. i love taking pictures for me and not for other people.. even if A.I. TAKES over SOCIAL MEDIA, Id still be taking photos.. If in any case, ill take more pictures

[@thaticelandicguy]

I agree with you, like I have nothing against AI, I use it daily. I do think it will replace many low tier photo jobs. Smaller cheaper ad productions and stuff like that. Maybe even mid tier too. But people will also like premium and human will be premium. Just like hand made va mass produced. On social media I get irritated to see this content. Because I know how much time goes into capturing these photos. But again, it is what it is, we can’t stop it, and we will probably go full circle as we humans always do and get tired of this eventually - then on to the next shiny thing 😂

[@Vizible21]

Yeah, ok for you to say because it's not your job it's taking. If you're not a "professional" photographer then your argument is invalid.

[@thaticelandicguy]

@@Vizible21 no need to be rude tbh, we can have a civil conversation right? I've done plenty of professional work in my time with my camera as a photographer, both b2c and b2b, and many of my best friends are commercial photographers. It sucks, but the world changes, and this isn't going away, so I just think the quicker you accept it and try to use it, the better. Because whether you like it or not I don't think we're rolling back the clock on this one. Or what do you think?

[@soumyajitbanerjee5659]

as an Indian i can say some AI generated photos of my country feels like criminal......... People won't even know something about this country and the perspective they get about India is just wrong

[@jager-fett]

I agree it's an issue and I personally dont use most of the AI tools in my photo edits. Spot removal and things like that but never generative fill, I just cant use it and feel good about it.

[@thaticelandicguy]

I actually really like many AI tools and the generative fill and expand are great. I even think full on ai art is cool. But what I find irritating is when people are using AI to fool people saying it’s real photos from real places. That shit is so lame and it’s all over the please rn 😅

[@mikepanton]

People in the future are going to have no idea what the real world looks like.

[@thaticelandicguy]

😂😂😂😂

[@PixWaxGB]

I too use AI Denoise and spot removal. The AI generated images are annoying, however, I think this will go full circle. People (especially in the photography community) will yearn for the slight imperfections of a true photo. These AI images will soon make true photos much more sort after and I’m already seeing articles about a “stamp/seal” to mark as “human made”. Perfection becomes boring as it becomes normal. People will get bored of the shots that are not of real scenes/subjects.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea makes total sense. It’s just new right now and the big hype I guess

[@SourDonut99]

Its not affecting photography as an artform. The art is fine. Photography as a profession, thats another story. Wedding photograhers are probably fine though. Im not a pro photographer, just a hobbyist. This doesnt bother me in the slightest. I take pictures, share it, print it, and appreciate the art all the same. People are just mad and scared they might lose their paychecks.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea agree, i think lots of lower end and mid end photography jobs will go away, especially in the commercial space. Simply because it's a lot easier, quicker and more cost efficient to have AI do it. And if people can't see if it's real or not, then I can't see why companies wouldn't go that route. But I agree, the art form is not in danger, and premium will always be there. Just like handmade is more premium than mass produced machine made. And as you say, photographing peoples memories and such will still be there. Let's just see what happenes :) This to shall pass.

[@susaz7694]

i don't even feel the problem is AI. it's photography in general. i love photography and it's being replaced by videography. most of the videos i see on youtube when i search how a camera or lens performs, they talk about the video capabilities 70% more than the photography side of the camera. it's so irritating to me! i get it, people film and post movies on tik tok or instagram and they vlog etc, but what about the rest that just wants a camera to photograph? i don't give a damn about the video capabilities of the cameras, i care about the photographic capabilities and i feel it just falls into the background when compared to video.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea maybe, video is more popular, and even in commercial world, video is in higher demand than still photos right now. So it's a valid point indeed.

[@joostverpoort]

If you just stop making photos for socials but make them for yourself as an artist you will not have this problem anymore and you will be rewarded by your viewers. The trap is we think it's needed to post on socials while it isn't..... driven by money mankind still make mistakes. I do as well btw... Balance is the word my Icelandic Guy! Nice content!!

[@thaticelandicguy]

Balance is the word my friend ❤

[@exiacyn4621]

I think it bothers professionals and content creators more than hobbyists and enthusiasts. I love making AI images in Flux and Imagen. And making good near realistic looking aesthetically pleasing images is harder than 'just' writing a prompt. But then I create those images for me and label them as ai. I don't pretend they are anything else and the topic divisive. People will disregard everything i say because I enjoy it and define it as 'not real art'. That's their opinion and I have mine. But replace photography? I love photography even more and I've yet to create anything that evokes the same feeling and attachment. AI is good but it can't yet reach the fidelity and detail of a photograph and it's very hard to art direct. You can kinda get it near what you want but that's as good as you'll get. The bigger problem I'm seeing is the AI content slop appearing which is low effort and poor quality. That's very different to what I like to do and that takes hours of refinement. Whether we like it or not it will happen. I personally think there needs to be a baked in content mark on all AI work that would enable someone to filter it out on their feeds. And that's coming from someone who loves it.

[@andrewchristie6483]

Perhaps Instagram is the problem. This garbage wouldn’t get near a camera club, but social media companies will embrace any controversy for clicks/ads.

[@thaticelandicguy]

for sure for sure, that's correct haha

[@Vizible21]

7:37 *ai generated images. Those are not "art". The fact that you're ok with them but are complaining about ai landscape photos are quite hypocritical. That just goes to show you're only looking out for yourself and not the actual issue you're trying to call out.

[@thaticelandicguy]

The point I'm trying to make isn't that AI in it's self is evil, I'm quite indifferent, it is what it is, and we're not rolling the clock back on this, it's here to stay, and I just think me might as well try to adapt and use it. What my complaint is, isn't AI art or that it's bad, but when people are creating AI generated photos and saying that they are real. That's irritating, just say it's AI, and people who will like it will like it, and people who would rather see real photos can do that. Makes sense?

[@9Denzzil9]

The world can't adapt to this technology faster than it should. But with time things will settle down, I'm sure. After people get tired of playing with fake art and photos, they will return to real content with some adjustments. Nothing new, it's happening all the time.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea you are probably right 😂 on to the next shiny object then. But I do believe that a lot of job as photographers will be going an away. All low tier and maybe even mid tier commercial shoots would make sense do be AI generated. Simply because it’s more time efficient and more cost effective. And if consumers can’t see a difference then I can’t see a world where companies would pay more unless it’s to create premium. I do think premium will all ways be there tho. Just like handmade handcrafts is considered higher value then mass produced by machine ☺️ But in the end of the day it is what it is and it will be fine. No matter what I’ll be taking photos for my own enjoyment haha

[@andrisstanga5938]

AI doesn't have your sense of humour and crazy lovable accent. You'll be fine!

[@thaticelandicguy]

😂😂😂❤️

[@AndrewSacoman]

Oppose the AI slop machine by finding and following real photographers. I support them by buying something directly from them. As much as possible I don’t click on, listen to, or watch any “art” I know has been made with AI either. Viewer attention is the one thing this garbage needs to survive and we can all deprive it of that. If companies know people hate AI slop and will click off their ad when they see it, they’ll stop putting dollars into it.

You're right.

[@thaticelandicguy]

In some aspects haha :)

[@dimitria.425]

I’m a full time portrait photographer, think I’m safe

[@thaticelandicguy]

I think you are haha 😂❤️

[@samscomments]

WWhat portraits sell the best for you? Cant figure out if its headshots or what

[@Michael_Robinson]

Great points, but you missed another aspect of this that should make you even angrier! The AI models are trained using real photos, so YOUR photos may have been "absorbed" by the AI model to give it the "skills" to create the fake ones. 😡

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea that's quite irritating, but just because we weren't asked about it. Had they asked photographers to submit and only used that then that's cool. Nothing we can do about it. But the fact that OpenAI scraped so much data without asking persmission sucks

[@kevinsim1514]

That waterfall may not be Iceland, but isnt’t it a real place in the Faroe Islands? Say hello to your viking cousins!

[@thaticelandicguy]

Which one? And HI!

[@kevinsim1514]

@ Lake Sørvàgsvatn (Leitisvstn) and Bøssdalafossur waterfall. Haha not me, I’m from Singapore. Cheers!

[@fjouper]

Its a weird time. We have the best possible gear in our hands and still no one will use them because businesses can just create everything themselves with AI. It will effect the whole industry not only camera manufacturers. Ive already seen AI ads being used by Swedish skiing resorts 😩. Looks terrible but some may not notice. Everything is fake these days.

[@thaticelandicguy]

I mean I think it will replace a lot of commercial photography work. Especially lower and mid tier jobs. Simply because it's faster and more cost efficient. And if consumers can't see the difference then I don't see a world where companies wouldn't use it. But premium will always be there, and for hobbyist it's fine. BTW there was a massive ad campaign in the metro in stockholm last spring, that was completely AI made. It looked splendid. I know the person who made it. She's a graphic designed and photographed a lot of details to put it into Photoshop and illustrator. But all the people were 100% AI made plus lots of other things. Basically a whole commercial shoot with lots of "talents" was made by 1 woman, instead of a big team lol

[@Xyrox_FN]

AI is stupid

[@thaticelandicguy]

I don’t agree, but using it like this is lame.

[@Korradoar]

exactly!

[@thaticelandicguy]

Indeed!

[@connorgeisler7112]

At the very least everything that is AI generated should have tags or disclaimers so that naive people don’t fall for it lol

[@thaticelandicguy]

yea that's what I think imo

[@BurtonHohman]

“I have nothing against AI” maybe you should ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@thaticelandicguy]

You think so? I personally am quite neutral. I see it as something that's here to stay, and fighting it is like trying to fight the internet back in the 90's early 00's. We might as well accept it and learn to use it responsibly?

[@blueridgestops3128]

AI generated images are not photographic images, they are photographic art. I call it phobart, because the word phobart does not sound flattering, as well it shouldn’t, because phobart lies! But because it’s photographically based, no one knows that the end product is lieing. The generation coming up, in another twenty years, will not know what is real or not. Photography needs a Big brothers, Big Sisters program, where photographers get out there and infuse the next generation with enough industry integrity to protect the future from AI-generated disreality.

[@thaticelandicguy]

😂 lol phobart is a hilarious word

[@blueridgestops3128]

@@thaticelandicguy 😀Thanks. It’s exactly how such AI-generated images should be described, because such images, albeit using previous photographic images like a paintbrush, are NOT photographs.

[@Barry-Sweaty]

As someone that paints and draws. AI art sucks. Kinda funny you get hurt about AI photography but AI art is “cool” confusing message.

[@thaticelandicguy]

You didn’t get the message of the video did you? AI is alright and it is what it is. It’s the miss use of this technology that bothers me. If these photos said “AI Landscape Photo”, I’d be like “ok cool” But it’s when it’s when the claim they are real or photos of real places that sucks. Then there is a whole other discussion about AI and what it will do to our society, but that’s another topic

[@samscomments]

This video is sponsored by ChatGPT~

[@aps-pictures9335]

Lol like Peter McKinnon has been doing for years

[@thaticelandicguy]

AI?

[@aps-pictures9335]

@ replacing 70% of the elements in his photographs and passing them off as photography to a wide audience. At what point does changing that much of a photo make it graphic design or another form of art. But it’s been a sure and slippery slope

[@NilsnVan]

Ai is a great tool, but not a good resource. I love the inspiration AI can help aid creators with. but Its never a substitute for creativity or ambition that us human beings carry.

[@thaticelandicguy]

Yea it’s a fantastic tool, use it everyday. And yea I agree with you ☺️

[@kheankimhong]

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[@thaticelandicguy]

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[@john3Lee]

I agree with you...... It's probable best to sell all your cameras, and sit at home all day..... Btw - Painting artist probable thought the same thing when photography came along...

[@thaticelandicguy]

Did you watch the video? 😂 I don’t think this is going to wreck all photographers, but I think commercial jobs will be done by ai, especially lower and mid tier jobs simply because it’s more time efficient and cost effective. But premium will always be there, just like handmade crafts are more valuable then mass produced goods. I also use AI a lot, this video was just about me ranting that it suckes when people are lying saying AI made is real photos Just be honest about it

[@davidmantripp]

If you just make photos for your own enjoyment, then what difference does it make? Also the tendency for landscape photography in particular to tend towards trophy hunting could actually be diminished, with the benefit of reducing the stress on honeypot locations. On the other hand, if you’re doing landscape photography for a living, well, you’re screwed. And if you think AI in general is a Good Thing, god help you. My first direct experience with AI was last week, getting a work annual performance report written by AI - which was so wrong it was libellous. And withdrawn. But it’s not going away, and honestly, I think it will finish us off one way or another. 🪦