I am by character, an introverted person. I find social interactions difficult and would much rather talk to someone 1:1. AI, to me, is attempting to erode that conversation.
There’s not many things in life that I can say that I hate, but AI is one.
It’s not inherently the concept of AI, but the lax way that people have become comfortable using it.
AI has already shown itself to be a powerful tool for medical research…but why do I need it? Why do you?
As well as the distinct and measurable downturn in the critical thinking ability of people that habitually use AI, and the massive ecological disaster that AI is, AI is making us forget what “real” is.
People on social media do not trust their own eyes anymore. Whenever something is beautiful or beyond the comprehension of the audience, they claim they’re looking at AI. They could look at it, enjoy it, and accept that the visual wonder exists and they just don’t understand it, or they could try to learn how it exists. But instead, there is a growing trend towards failing to accept that natural beauty exists.
But beauty does exist. In real life. Everywhere.
AI has, of course, jumped right into the world of photography. It can do relatively harm-free things like edit an entire shoot in a few clicks (if you trust it to do what you want, which I don’t). But AI changes things whether you ask it to or not. That’s the interpretative database trying to predict the next question before you’ve asked it. That’s all it is. A database.
Generative AI (which creates “new” stuff from prompts) is a separate, copyright stealing evil that’s for another post, but my attitude towards AI can be summarised by the AI retouching software i keep getting spam about.
If I spend hours of my time setting up a shoot and doing the shoot with a client…why would I then hand over the final result for AI to produce?
The final result is my product. It is my brand.
Yes, it might be quicker…but it cannot be trusted, because of the way it’s written. I want every image I take of a client, to look like that client. AI can’t get in my mind, or your mind, to understand what you want to look like.
Clients come to me because they trust how I take photos and trust the way they look with me.
I don’t trust AI with your image.
I imagine the rest of my blog posts will be slightly less “ranty”, but this had to be said.
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