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our technology are being made left right
and center and we have the ability to
take advantage of a lot of these the
word artificial intelligence is
terrifying but it's already used in ways
that are actually tremendously helpful
but here's the thing it's kind of
starting to get out of hand it gets
risked with deep fakes and AI generated
content it's not even that we'll start
believing what's not true what's fake
but that we stop believing what is true
now this photo is from a few days ago it
went totally viral and it's a photo of
the Pope wearing a white puffer coat and
it's not real you can see where this
could become a problem this is where we
introduce Lauren oh yeah hi Lauren is my
friend she's also an amazingly talented
photographer and she actually took that
photo that's behind us right right over
there so I'm an engineer actually if
we're talking artificial intelligence
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we've already seen a lot of benefits
from it we have all of these tools now
to really enhance images and kind of
combine these AI tools and everything we
can do digitally with the photograph to
create something really unique but it
does raise the question of you know is
this really photography at the end of
the day images generated entirely by AI
which is an ironic statement because
generated entirely by AI is actually a
still using human prompts and B using
maths Mass amounts of data which come
from where other pieces of work so
you're kind of just like stealing little
parts of things to make something new if
this actually fundamentally eliminates
creators from the equation of All Sorts
is who's going to be out there making
the work that AI is dependent on in the
first place good thing or bad thing it's
inexpensive Hobby and profession if
someone wants to start in this area this
provides not only access it helps people
work through some very very real and
personal issues because it was a way
that they could access artistic
expression if they didn't have the
skills or means or capabilities
logistics for one we're talking about
being in a little office in your house
to make a shoot that would have
otherwise required a whole crew of
people money locations now is in a
computer you're saving time and you're
saving bodies which means you're saving
money so this can now become a lot more
inexpensive but here's the issue who are
we paying still on the tip of the
iceberg so on the tip I heard it
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the other element is surrealism so even
if you were to in this lens to your
exact point is there are some Larger
than Life creative campaigns that
someone may want to pursue the logistics
behind that let alone just a I don't
want to say your standard creative shoot
or campaign is exponentially more
difficult if not not feasible at all
what other positives do we have
um
that's it would love to hear if you guys
have other positives in the comments you
know some of them are big positives they
are wanted to keep using it I like AI
being used in photography I am
personally not a fan of this very
specifically when used in campaigns let
me make sure I get her name correct here
she is an AI generated model and
influencer and I'm saying better yet in
the most sarcastic way one could use
that
she is a black model if there weren't
already issues in most Industries let
alone the fashion industry for diversity
and inclusion programs we're gonna have
a black AI model making money for the
programmers who made her we
photographers have taken our photos and
we're like hey we want to make some
passive income and we upload them onto
stock websites here's what those photos
are getting used for AI data so that's a
massive copyright issue people are
people are being screwed like how do you
compensate photographers for that so on
the other hand we also have ai being
used to actually remove watermarks and
there is a website I don't even know if
I should mention it because I don't want
you guys to know about it I'm getting
this off camera so I'm not going to tell
you uh but if you find out who the
founder is you can by all means send
them my way so like obviously it's that
in itself is affecting photographers
because you're taking our images that
should be paid for you're removing the
watermark and people are running around
using them left right and Center
there are some areas of Photography that
you know it could hurt us and what are
those Lauren if you're a photographer
who understands how AI works and works
with it you might not also be out of a
job there is an art form to the prompts
at the end of the day if you want to
continue to have a job in this industry
you do have to move with the times with
that said I still think there are genres
of Photography that will never
completely go away so I don't think that
photographers are completely out of a
job but I can see it changing for sure
so if you think of photojournalism for
example like real photos of real events
and situations that have happened will
always be needed family photos for
example weddings weddings engagements
you know those are the styles of
Photography that are going to continue
to be desired as being completely
authentic there's value in human
connection even working with
photographers if you've ever hired a
photographer for something or someone's
hired you it's I'm gonna say like 30
percent about your work 70 about you as
a person thanks Lauren for being on the
channel today I hope you guys enjoyed
this very spirited debate over AI it's a
little bit different than what we've
done on the channel in the past but I
thought this was something we're
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