Sunset in the Hall
Lately I've been experimenting with the text-to-image AI Midjourney. Apart from the stupid idea of making Midjourney available in a chat forum, which gives an unspeakable interface, working with an imaging AI is frustrating enough as it is. Here, for example, I simply wanted an empty square covered in wet concrete slabs. Instead, Midjourney delivered a hall and a landscape that I didn't order. I intended to put the reflective person on the empty square and mount a beach behind it. Now I had to make a shadow instead of the reflection and could only contribute the sky (without the sea).
We photographers do not accept AI-generated images as a matter of principle. We believe they are not made by us, the way we make a photograph. We have merely commissioned an image made by an AI, just as we commission a painting from a painter. But is it different with a photograph? There, too, we have ultimately commissioned the generation of the image from a machine called a camera. Modern cameras are high-tech and already use AI-based software. I am torn whether to completely reject or partially accept AI-generated images.
Sunset in the Hall
Lately I've been experimenting with the text-to-image AI Midjourney. Apart from the stupid idea of making Midjourney available in a chat forum, which gives an unspeakable interface, working with an imaging AI is frustrating enough as it is. Here, for example, I simply wanted an empty square covered in wet concrete slabs. Instead, Midjourney delivered a hall and a landscape that I didn't order. I intended to put the reflective person on the empty square and mount a beach behind it. Now I had to make a shadow instead of the reflection and could only contribute the sky (without the sea).
We photographers do not accept AI-generated images as a matter of principle. We believe they are not made by us, the way we make a photograph. We have merely commissioned an image made by an AI, just as we commission a painting from a painter. But is it different with a photograph? There, too, we have ultimately commissioned the generation of the image from a machine called a camera. Modern cameras are high-tech and already use AI-based software. I am torn whether to completely reject or partially accept AI-generated images.