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As a registered world cynic.... Eric said.. "Our work will be the cheaper for the lack of complete involvement."
Is that not what our industrialisation process does?
It removes or reduces the highly rated human skill to a point where it can be performed by a machine. This allows for the replacement of expensive humans with cheap machines that can be run 24/7/365. Higher profits for the owner, starvation for the craftspeople.
Photography used to be a valued and not inexpensive process that was valued, now every idiot with a smartphone is an expert photographer and videographer!
I acknowledge a lot of what you say is true, Mr World Cynic.
To a great extent I share some of those feelings.However a feel a line can be drawn between occupational and recreational tasks. During my several careers I embraced mechanical advantage whenever it came along. I happily accepted auto ‘this and that’ on my recreational cameras as a way to improve the rate of success….even before turning them into occupational tools.
The use of computers for digital image manipulation is still within ‘my’ acceptable zone.
Were I think AI starts to introduce a divide is the usurping of ownership of the creative result. That may still be ok if your job/career/ living depend on results.
However, as someone who no longer seeks financial gain from my photography, I get a greater pleasure in thinking up and effecting the ideas myself. AI may come up with something more stunning and impressive…in a fraction of the time but where’s the sense of achievement in that?
NOW…if AI and robotics come together to give me a device to weed my garden, leaving ‘proper’ plants untouched (something Jan reckons I fail to achieve), I would sign up straight away.
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