billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

AI does not take the image, a human does. Until a robot can go into the wetlands or Florida, my job will be safe.

srg

I will be scared when AI can re-roof my house.

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

The last one standing will be .....HAL (2001 space odessey)

srt101fan

But that bird picture you show could have been "created" on a computer with AI software! 🤔

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Burkley Loc: Park City

“Professional photographer” covers a lot of imaging specialists. Wedding photographer—how do you use AI to capture a moment in time? Event photography, same thing. Portraits, same thing. Fashion, same thing, but less so. Speaking with post processing specialists, they already say that the photograph quality is almost irrelevant in regards to commercial photography. One major company has 1 or 2 photographers and 7-8 photoshop specialists employed. I suspect, though, that post processing is actually where AI will become the most valuable as an asset and destroy jobs. This will be a major hit for those hoards in advertising that manipulate us by manipulating images. In addition, I foresee someone generating a deceptive Instagram post by telling their AI program, “Do a selfie with Beth and James snuggling together in a gondola under the bridge of sighs in Venice. And get rid of the bald spot on James.”

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Sadly, the current story of our lives....

scoundrel Loc: Wytheville VA

I doubt that many adults, especially in urban areas, have gone through life without having at least one head shot taken of them for identification purposes. If the subject is willing, a suitable series of such shots could be taken in a studio.This wouldn't quite replace portrait photography, but would produce a starting point for a suitable portrait. From there, the artificial intelligence can change lighting, expressions, and small details from typed descriptions with adequate precision.

We also currently have police sketch artists who produce images from a witness' interactive description of a subject. I would expect an AI-enhanced version of the sketchpad to be able to produce a suitable likeness, especially if the subject were actually present.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

Ridiculous fear. Let AI be the servant, not the master. When AI gets legs, eyes, flexible brains, etc., etc. then we may be scared.

Bill_de Loc: US

Then why the post?


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scoundrel Loc: Wytheville VA

In some ways, the future is behind schedule.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

If you are a hobbyist, amateur photographer, family snapshooter or just doing photoghay for art's sake, you need NOT worry about AI. You can do whatever you like in photography, for as long as you want. You can go retro, use obsolete methods, wet plate, cyanotypes, film, or just stay with digital photoghay as long as the equipment and supplies are available. There is no force to prevent you from doing whatever you are doing." THE AI MONSER" will not come and swallow you and all your gear, Consider AI as just another technology or art form- nobody is telling you what to do.

Speaking as a COMMERCIAL photographer, a person who earns his living in photograhy, I am not overly concerned about AI. Over the years, many innovations and trends have emerged that have caused a reduction in the need for professional photographers. There has always been something. Cellphone selfies, cheap supermarkets, and department store mass-production portrait mills have almost eliminated the neighborhood brick-and-mortar portrait studio but the few that delivered superior, creative, and technically excellan work managed to survive and thrive. AI? A robot can not make a seriously great portrait, or cover a wedding or event The are many aspects of photoghay that require HUMAN contact between the photographer and their clients.


In commercial work, the same folks who use stock photos rather than images that are customized to their product, service, or brand, may go to AI. To continue no in business, creative and resoursful photoghaers have to continuously seek new marks and clients and do things that the machines can not. If Ai can be employed to augment their services or improve efficiency, it is just another tool and not a threat.

Will AI be misused, abused, and used for nefarious or destructive purposes- you bet! Just like everything else tha was supposed to be beneficial- the internet, nuclear energy, superhighways, drugs, and all sorts of technologies. Do we go backward and cnacell them? Make beleive they don't exist? We deal with all of it, regular them, and use it all for the good.

Laramie Loc: Tempe

The question is, am I the current master, or the current servant?

scoundrel Loc: Wytheville VA

There is more to that particular story. HAL was brought back to sanity and was sacrificed in the service to humanity in the sequel titled 2010: Odyssey Two. Neither the book nor the movie sequel was nearly as good as the first one. It's been a long time since I read 2010, but I just brought it up from the basement.

delder Loc: Maryland

ALL Photograpers should be concerned. Professional Photography has driven the cutting edge of Photography for MANY years.
[Who else but the AP could afford $12,000 + for the Kodak 420 series?
(Original Commercial Digital Cameras)