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What do you think about the fact that AI blurs the line between reality and fiction and devalues art and real people? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Go ahead and tell the AI to scout out the location, then travel to the location to shoot, wait for the optimal lighting conditions and then find the best angle and camera settings to capture that one in a million photo that your years of experience working with film and photography tools taught you.

If you can tell me honestly that an AI would do the same job, then I’m going to say you should find a new hobby.

I have heard this bogus “but what about a camera?” argument more times than I can count. And it’s always a poor argument in defense of AI.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I don't need to tell an AI to scout the location, travel there, wait for optimal lighting, nail the composition, dial in the settings, etc. I don't need to tell a sculptor to do that either - it's a completely different artistic field. Nobody here is claiming AI-generated pictures are photography - they're not. Photography is done with a camera. The discussion is whether generating pictures with AI counts as art or not - not whether it's photography.

    I'm using photography as the example because people dismiss AI art on the grounds that "it doesn't require any skill or effort," but the exact same argument has been thrown at photography forever. There was a time when purists said the same thing about digital photography, and they were equally saying it about film photography back when it was new and painting was still "the" way to make pictures.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    It’s a shit argument. A photo, digital or otherwise is CREATING the location. It’s a copy of a thing that already exists.

    AI can create entire songs complete with vocals that can fool engineered with have been in the business for their entire life. This is not remotely close to the same thing and you know it.

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