AI / Computational photography is on the rise, as is deep fakes, as is GPT, as is âŚetc etc.
But human creativity can never be replaced, this isnât to say AI canât produce visually beautiful pieces (e.g. when DALL-E isnât making a horrible mess of something, it can also produce some nice results at times, too), but at the end of the day a computer can only ever rely on a formula / criteria / etc to make an assessment. A person can look at the same thing that might be technically âperfectâ and find it repulsive.
In the same way I personally value automation assisted testing, I also value automation (e.g. AI) assisted photography, etc. Photomater and ON1 RAW 2023.5 are great examples of that. They try to âintelligentlyâ work out adjustments / alterations, etc⌠but at the end of the day the key thing that will make what comes from it something pleasing to others or not will be the person behind it (which is where the 12 inches behind expression still remains just as true).
Luminar, by comparison, went hard on the AI enhancements before most others, and over reached, and ruined their application for anyone who is serious about photography, they made it useful to amateurs, but to anyone more advanced it became irritating to use. Fortunately, they have learnt from their mistakes and Luminar Neo provides a significantly improved balance to also make it more around âintelligentâ and âsmartâ alterations and enhancements, rather than some one-click âfixâ.
iOSâs Camera app, third-party apps, and likely Android Camera apps have undoubtedly made capturing better exposed, sharper, etc images easier, but they donât fix image composition, they donât consider leading lines, they donât consider subject matter, they donât care even if its the same angle of the same subject again and again, etc⌠Only a human can make these decisions right now!
People are trying to use AI to âreplaceâ the need for people to create things themselves, but a computer will only ever replicate whatâs its been taught, even with ML this library of data and knowledge may be massive, but it will ultimately follow a formula, follow its programmed logic, etc. This is a genuine limit.
Whether or not society on a broader level actually cares enough about the difference between one and the other is its own matter, and for the masses, potentially not, but to anyone with a keen eye for details, or with a deep knowledge, theyâll be able to pick the cliche over the innovative more often than not.
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