Artists must adapt and evolve or be left behind. Photojournalism however will be under increased scrutiny. Outstanding commentary David. Cheers!
@fotogfitzfoto412
Жыл бұрын
Amnesty International were forced by criticism to remove AI images they used to promote their reports on social media, including fake photos of Colombia’s 2021 protests.
@phoenixr6811
Жыл бұрын
This was a good take on AI. Auto Focus and Categorizing is a good thing and very helpful. But I always remember that not everyone will be comfortable or even want this technology so there always be that market😊
@IAmR1ch
Жыл бұрын
I think it will destroy the industry. Look at what cell phones have done to the camera industry. Now, children will take a frontal, and a couple side images on their cell phone, feed it to AI and it will be able to put that person in any body, wardrobe, location, background. Why would you need a photographer. AI cannot create anything from scratch, the reason it is able to do what it does is because it stole millions of photos off the internet without the author permission. It then uses these images to formulate its database to make new images. If you take this database away. I cannot do anything by itself but creates images on the backs of photographers and other creatives. This should have been fixed by copyright laws but has not been done yet. But even if the databases are removed, AI developers will actually have to pay photographers and artists for their work, but then they will be able to use those images legally. So at best copyright will only slow AI down a bit. It will still destroy photography as we know it. The average person will be able to use a phone to scan their face and you will be able to create any picture you want. You won't need pro photographers because you already have their work, creativity in AI and all that is needed is a picture of your face. These images created by AI will be "good enough" so the average person will not need a photographer. Event photography to document an event (school soccer match. sporting events will still have some longevity, because AI cannot create things it does not know about..
@barneylaurance1865
Жыл бұрын
Even event photography is at risk, seems like there's a reasonable chance people will switch to having people who are going to the event anyway for non-photography reasons take low quality smartphone photos and then have those used as input for an AI system that would generate images that look like professional photos. Or maybe people will stick a few ai-controlled CCTV style auto pan zoom tilt cameras to the walls and around the space to take the raw photos during an event. AI can generate 'photos' from different positions.
@thegougy
Жыл бұрын
event photography like a sport event? Well, I estimate the opposite, what a Great Show it will be without human limitations
@indiegogogirl2662
Жыл бұрын
Exactly! Watch the SAG and writers strike in LA. They're more or less fighting for the same things we should be
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
Maybe photography as it exits today might not be viable. But it's up to us - the creatives - to continue to innovate and create new work. Cell phones have given amazing creative outlets to many people that didn't have the access before. I guess I'm just a "half glass full" kinda guy. :)
@IAmR1ch
Жыл бұрын
@@DavidBergmanPhoto I can only hope you are right. Unfortunately your optimism buys us very little and the reality of AI is doom and gloom for the average human. It will make the rich richer, but that is a given.
@barneylaurance1865
Жыл бұрын
As a hobbyist I share photos online and hope for people to appreciate them - and maybe more so appreciate my skill judgement and effort I used to create them. I worry that that will become harder or impossible as AI generated imaging becomes more and more widespread.
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
Art will always be appreciated. It's not a zero-sum game that they have no room to like your work if they also like the AI stuff.
@blonko86
Жыл бұрын
Great break down, David. Thanks for your honest thoughts. I'm only about two or three years into my photography journey and quite honestly, the AI stuff has me wondering about my photography in terms of creativity.
@AliasJimWirth
Жыл бұрын
I am wondering what you mean about your creativity? I am sure no machine or computer, AI, etc., will replace my creativity. I may not get jobs if I am looking for them, but I am no less creative than I ever was. Just curious what you meant, is all, no judgement intended. I hope you will say. Thanks. p.s. I am not diminishing the concerns we rightly have about AI.
@felixrodriguez782
Жыл бұрын
The human mind is still the main key for creative express that can only be enhanced by A.I. not replaced because it took a human mind to create it .
@alanplatt888
Жыл бұрын
I think you have produced an excellent evaluation of AI the potential and a wake up call for those not wanting to be left in it's wake. Nice job.
@AStageForTheKingdom
Жыл бұрын
The camera technology in phones and phone editing software (i.e. Google Photos) is already getting to a point where hiring a photographer is almost unnecessary in many cases. That is only going to get worse as AI improves and gets incorporated into camera phone technology. I imagine it won't be long before a phone camera can accurately simulate the look of a professional camera setup costing thousands of dollars. Portrait mode is already getting fairly close to recreating the look of a good portrait lens on an expensive camera. Phone cameras can also often manage to properly expose an image with tricky lighting/composition that would require focus stacking or similar tricks with a real camera. Depth of field is also something phones excel at. For example, with a real camera it's all too easy for a group photo to end up with some people being slightly or badly out of focus, but phones do a lot better at solving that. AI will only improve that.
@Isaypreach
Жыл бұрын
I always wonder why phones was able to do that better than cameras and our cameras cost more than the phones and im not talking about the cheap phones. That part never made sense to me.
@JMissy205PAGE
Жыл бұрын
This is why I like shooting with my phone more than I do my camera.
@lissac67
Жыл бұрын
As always, spot on, David. Thank you for your commentary.
@peter.nicholson
Жыл бұрын
Great summary David, thanks for a balanced assessment of the current situation. Just started using some of the AI tools in Photoshop ('Remove Tool' in particular) and it performs better than all the other available Photoshop remove tools and is so quick...
@PhotoTrekr
Жыл бұрын
I spent my career working with computers and doing photography as a hobby. One day it occurred to me that someday there could be new Marilyn Monroe or Humphrey Bogart movies using CG. But, the worrisome part is unscrupulous politicians using CG and AI to create realistic looking scenarios that never existed in real life. We've already seen that this isn't even necessary for masses of people to believe something that isn't true. I do worry about the harm that AI could do in the future.
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
Me too.
@matthewberg5835
3 ай бұрын
I doubt it will be the near future Probably like 20 30 years
@melissadyess5835
Жыл бұрын
This was so interesting and helpful. I didnt even know photoshop had added those options.
@InfectedChris
Жыл бұрын
The Photoshop/LR AI stuff is ..."interesting" to say the least. But, AI can never replace my love of going out and spending time in nature just capturing the things I see. I am no pro and will likely stick to using the LR AI tools as a tool. NOT a replacement.
@HAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Жыл бұрын
Been implementing in editing and now waiting on the Sony A6700 with that Ai improved eye autofocus
@mortenjensen2457
Жыл бұрын
Spot on
@ronyedin
Жыл бұрын
Photographers won’t be loosing their jobs to AI. They will be loosing them to people who knows how to use AI to their advantage. We need to keep evolving.
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
Well said!
@HernandezMFotografia
Жыл бұрын
Key to integrating AI in your photography workflow is honesty and high ethical standards. Your customers must be aware that AI is used as a tool for refining the final product, not to trick them into believe that you create something that you didn't.
@jameslong1540
Жыл бұрын
Thoughts on -- R9 - RETRO OF THE F-1 with the Olympic Paris symbol and the winder grip -- that would be awesome!!!
@danbrowning2418
Жыл бұрын
Great essay!
@mihai.p.
Жыл бұрын
At this rate, the AI will replace you too. What you're doing now will be possible to be done by AI. With deep fake, in the near future when everything will be more evolved, we won't be able to tell who's real and who's not in the videos. Some people I know use AI to generate descriptions of their also AI generated home designes(interior designs)!!! Imagine that! All you have to do, is to be good at describing things, but have zero designer skills! Nobody will have the desire to put the time and the energy to develop a particular skill when anybody can achieve it only by writing a few words. Yes, some will benefit from this AI but in the detriment of MANY. AI will affect video creators, game creators, photographers, interior designers, architects, programmers, singers, content writers, book writers, web designers, cloths designers and so on. Imagine you had to "exercise" 20+ years to become a good professional and suddenly AI takes that from you! Will you have the energy and more important the time to start over learning something else? What if that thing was the only thing you liked to do and you were good at?
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
It's coming whether we like it or not. We can choose to adapt and evolve, or not.
@bobbullethalf
6 ай бұрын
But how do you adapt to an image that has been texted to the machine?
@vonpotatostein
Жыл бұрын
My main issue with AI is how it has been trained, so far the only service that has been trained in an ethical way is the one from Adobe, authors of photos, illustrations, etc. gave persmission to adobe to feed their images into Firefly to train it. Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Dall-E have have scraped and trained their Machine Learning sytems with what's available on the net without the consent or permission from the images' authors. (Elon Musk has already told he will do the same to Twitter/X users and he's not asking for their permission so XAI is going to be in the same bandwagon). And these services which have been trained in an unethical way poses a moral dilema for us photographers: Should we use Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, etc. which were trained on stolen art when we ourselves had, have and will defend the copyright of our images if they are stolen and used without our consent? That's a question each one of us will have to answer to ourselves. In my case I sincerily won't use Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Dall-E or any other systema that has been trained on stolen photos. I'm perfectly OK on using Adobe's Firefly on their products since they have actually trained it ethically. Both Chat GPT and text to image systems aren't AI but Machine Learning there's an interesting small article in Google Cloud about the difference between AI and Machine Learning that's worth a read!
@lavdoshgjuzaj4882
11 ай бұрын
Scary shit!
@jesusgjchuza6491
Жыл бұрын
🤝🤝
@b991228
Жыл бұрын
If former President G.W. Bush creates his hand made oil paintings in AI and he starts putting them on the market do I want to purchase his masterpieces? They may be better than anything that he can normally produce but are they truly his? In my personal opinion I’m going to hold out with AI till Rembrandt puts his works on the market.
@b991228
Жыл бұрын
When it comes with AI rest assured that the opinion in this comment is not striving for fair and balanced. 👎
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
If no one buys them, he would stop doing them. Or he'll just do them for fun. I don't think he needs the money....
@RickMahoney2013
Жыл бұрын
What about realist like me who refuse to use A.I. there are still a lot of us out here.
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
There will be fewer as time goes by.
@RickMahoney2013
Жыл бұрын
@@DavidBergmanPhoto You opinion not the person who is taking the photo , correct ?
@matthewberg5835
3 ай бұрын
Ai will not destroy photograph or replace it Just like it will destroy or place many other jobs
@macbaar6073
Жыл бұрын
Ask AI… for photo tips?
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
Yea - it could happen. I've had a long career and am constantly growing as a photographer and businessperson. Hopefully this series continues for a long time, but I'll always be looking towards the future.
@matthewberg5835
3 ай бұрын
Ai can’t create art sorry It copies art Ai can’t paint People are more likely to by human art than ai art Ai can’t make music it sounds horrible Also many companies have banned ai in art and music
@fotogfitzfoto412
Жыл бұрын
One downside to the loss of the horse and buggy was that we now need to use artificial fertilisers to grow great rhubarb and beautiful roses. 😉
@dangilmore9724
Жыл бұрын
The issue i have with AI is twofold - the first IA generated "Deep Fake" images and footage being used to create deceptive content. The second issue is that when you cede your ability for any task to any automated process, you will eventually lose that particular ability. Asking an AI system to create an image is not art. It's laziness at best and leading people down the path to being slaves or tools of the technology itself. AI will be a matter being placed in a situation where the computer will tell you, "I'm sorry Dave, i can't do that." (See what i did there? 😉)
@DavidBergmanPhoto
Жыл бұрын
Well played. :)
@tedcrosby9361
10 ай бұрын
Photography is the recording of light either on film, or a digital sensor. AI generated images have nothing to do with photography. Digital is becoming more and more gimmicky, that’s why I’ve stayed with film, and darkroom. I am the intelligence !
@traderpete007
Жыл бұрын
Generative AI is going to give all content creators a run for the money, but it will also help photographers be more effective when trained to work in their style. Stable Diffusion by Stability AI that can create images based on just descriptions vs the tools we can see from companies like Topaz or Imagen
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