This AI-generated image won the Sony World Photography and Lens #Culture awards.
I’m reluctant to name the “author” — Boris ELDAGSEN — who says the “image was imagined by language and re-edited between 20 and 40 times through #AI-image generators, pic.twitter.com/qiUiORzGMW
combining the techniques of inpainting, outpainting and prompt whispering… just as photography replaced painting in the reproduction of reality, AI will replace #photography.
Don’t be afraid of the future. It will just be more obvious that our mind has always created the world that makes us suffer.”
Ahem… That’s totally NOT why I had been photographing the real world since 1997!
The award should go to AI #engineers who, by the way, never paid us — the real, living human #artists with a rent and electricity bills due — a single cent for the ingest of our pre-existing photographs to train their #LLM s (same applies for code and text).
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