| ▲ | api a day ago | |
The discourse around photography and art reminds me exactly of the discourse around AI and art too: https://medium.com/@aaronhertzmann/how-photography-became-an... In some cases pieces I've read on AI and art contain phrases or paragraphs that are almost word for word identical to photography and art discourse. There were moral panics around photography too, especially its obvious use in pornography. There was of course pornographic drawing and painting before (we've found it in ancient Egyptian structures!) but photography took it to a new level. | ||
| ▲ | lblume a day ago | parent [-] | |
A counterpoint: photography enabled integrity and authenticity of images, which fueled journalistic credibility, in general becoming one part in fostering a high-trust society. AI image generation leads to these advances being slowly eradicated as generated images increasingly cannot be differentiated from unfabricated evidence. In this light, photography was socially progressive, while AI generation of photorealistic images could be seen as regressive. | ||