MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence technology has raised concerns about eliminating jobs held by humans. Professional photography is now coming into focus as one such potential casualty.

"The rapid advancements in AI and image processing are transforming photography from a skill-based art to one that is increasingly technology-driven. This evolution is making high-quality photography accessible to a broader audience, challenging the traditional notion of professional photography as a skill," according to a report published Tuesday by Medium.

"As we move further into this AI-driven era, it becomes evident that the role and relevance of professional photography skills, as we have known them, are becoming obsolete."


Personally I could not care less as I am only a mucker who likes manipulating clicks... Let the old guard fight it out; last man standing will be the personal companion, i.e. " The Cellphone ".

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

What is the possibility that notices, articles, published opinions, conjecturings, etc are just output of over-reacting imaginations? .....maybe this, possibly that, potentially the other....

Or, in some think tank, somewhere, are there some influencers huddled around marketing plan schemes and scenarios, devising messages to influence the largest possible segments of the population to just give up and give in.....trying to persuade thinking people to give up personal effort to live real life, because the producers of artificial everything can do it better than any stinkin' gray matter between the ears could ever hope to do?

Are people just going to lie down and roll over and sigh and moan that it's hopeless to think personal memories of the new baby: ~child-brother-sister-niece-nephew-grandchild-great grandchild~ cannot be recorded in a visual or audio visual file?.....
.....that no visual or audio visual memories of any of life's experiences: ~personal, professional, work needs, casual, one-time events, recurring similar events through the cycle of a child's growth, etc~ can be made because only some ether from thousands of light-years distance can be able to conjure up reliable artificial wizardry, which must be accepted over the tangibility of reality?

Are large numbers of humans being conditioned to give up use of mental faculties and submit to the purge of individual thought and operability?

MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

The REALITY is that " Stinking Gray Matter " is where AI came from in the first place. The " Evolution " of man, for better or worse. Be careful what you sow !

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Does that mean other gray matters must give up and let the artificial be given free reign?

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

It's sometimes difficult to perceive across the distances in written form. In no way am I trying to challenge you to put up your dukes and make a believer out of me.
I am trying to express a questioning of the motives and methods behind the intentions and activities of the producers, marketers, and hawkers of the artificial and its supposed superiority.

MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

Who said give up.... Would you rather hand crank your car or touch the start button ? You have a choice. Our departed friend Bob chose to walk around in the woods with sticks over his shoulder and carrying a suitcase... His choice. Photo Venue's in the future will be handled by non human machines which will cover all angles and exposure requirements perfectly and far better than a human could ever hope to achieve... Personally I really don't care ... I just reposted a post. Take a bite, chew a little, and either swallow or spit out !

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I can't wait for an AI to reach 10% of the capabilities of the average UHH community member. At least all the Photo Gallery entries will start in the Photo Gallery.

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Warhorse Loc: SE Michigan

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

How will AI replace portrait photography? Can anyone accurately describe, with sufficient and appropriate words, to a computer that will produce an accurate picture of a real living person that is not well known or whose photograph is not on a computer somewhere?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Beauty is not in the eye, but in the mind, and knowing that others can't tell that AI generated the image.

MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

I don't have anything to say about so called superiority, but wasn't one of the main drivers behind AI the ability of super fast computers being able to enact complicated algorithms that would take our limited gray matter a non realistic amount of time... WE have just extended the speed and efficiency of that old Stinking gray matter... HOW we use it is up to us. What did nuclear physics do for us ? Ability to destroy major cities with a single bomb ? We invented the means by which heavy machinery can handle more weight than our frail bodies can... NOW we have machines that can compute faster than the gray matter does. It's progress.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

I wonder how many times will one scream: THE SKY IS FALLING!!! Before they realize what is falling is their PI.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

I'm going to keep this reply to your points very limited, because I don't want to be responsible for your thread being banned to the attic, and hope I don't push it to that point.
With or without technological "progress", the inhumanity between factions of humans will go on at the highest rate the most evil among us can manage to "justify".

It's disturbing that some I know who have been in and survived the atrocities and horrors of war, seem to still want to see it promoted. I don't personally understand them on that level, just as they don't understand me and some others who have a much different response to what we've seen.
Some of us would much rather see technology fueled by and dedicated to peacefulness among the peoples of the world, rather than so much effort to keep technological advances married to selfish aspirations for military sovereignty. Yes, as you said, somehow it's "WE" collectively who are the culprits of the low road usage of tech advancement.....those who long to see peace get lumped into the same vicious cycle over which we have no control.

When the "grid" crashes, the technical advances of manmade systems will be rendered insufficient to self-sustain and provide all the conveniences that the tech-reliant have come to expect. There will be a lot of suffering amongst those who can't, won't, or don't know how to function without the system of AI, and it won't be easy for those who did not embrace it with great welcome, either.

fantom Loc: Colorado

Read the first sentence in your post. "They" were saying the exact same thing about computers 50 years ago.