If the camera was capable of deciding how to frame the images, how to stage them, what lighting was required, how to edit them after taking them -- yes, professional photography would be dead. Hobbyist photography may stick around for people that value humanness, but photographers wouldn't be commercially relevant. Just ask the camera.

AI isn't a better keyboard. The goal is to automate the decision making.

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alfg 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> capable of deciding how to frame the images, how to stage them, what lighting was required, how to edit them

This is all possible now. I don’t think it’s dead (yet), but it’s certainly becoming more weird and artificial.

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aprilthird2021 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> AI isn't a better keyboard. The goal is to automate the decision making.

It pretty much is. And it won't

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		I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you haven't extensively used the latest models. You should really play around with them. Give Sonnet 5.5 / Opus 5.5 a shot if you haven't. I am not a shill, I do not work for any AI company, and I used to think like you. But I've come to terms with the fact that Sonnet 5.5 does most aspects of my job better than me and faster than me. It made a mistake? No problem, feed the mistake back to it. I have yet to have it fail when it iterated on its mistakes. All that happens asynchronously in the background and quite rapidly with 5.5.

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blktiger 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is a lot of variability in photography and there aren’t hard rules for deciding what makes a “good” photo. A good photo comes more from selecting a subject, in a particular environment, etc.

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0c3ca83 7 hours ago | parent [-]

There's also a lot of variability in AI, and it doesn't follow hard rules for what makes "good" output; it's capable of selecting a wide variety of subjects, environments, etc. And it's trained on more art critics than any photographer has read.

Taste is a set of heuristics for what's worked for the taster in the past. AI is very good at heuristics.

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eluru 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

if AI was able to do so...

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