The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
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#2Before I wrote a single line of code, I championed my abilities to add/subtract individuals from photos for family and friends, first using ClarisWorks Paint! My Samsung S22 can now do this within seconds and better. I removed a TV in front of some liquor bottles on the wall. It repeated the bottles but not even the same ones!
Re: The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
#3As someone who's role involves some elements of image editing, Adobe's GenAI feature is a welcome tool... however, as someone who's read 1984 and is concerned about the future tidal wave of scams, I'm not so keen on ever a$$hole and his/her dog being enabled.
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#4As if people didn't photoshop the hell out of photos before. This "era" began 20 years ago. Look at instagram, for the last decade these techniques were applied without ai.
Re: The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
#5Every photo is a lie. https://fstoppers.com/documentary/every-photograph-youve-eve...
Re: The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
#6As someone who's role involves some elements of image editing, Adobe's GenAI feature is a welcome tool... however, as someone who's read 1984 and is concerned about the future tidal wave of scams, I'm not so keen on ever a$$hole and his/her dog being enabled.
I love Adobe's GenAI, but I also hate it. The problem is it has been programmed with some pseudo Judeo-Christian moral guidelines. Trying to edit my gf's beach pics to remove crap from the background, it freaks out on some bikini pics and pops-up with an angry yellow box, basically lecturing you on your life choices for not covering your entire skin with clothing. You have to chop the image into new documents, fix each part and then reassemble them so that it never sees the whole.
Then there is the fact it marks any image using AI as made with AI (and the user cannot disable it), so the meta data makes it look like you fabricated the whole image. I used GenAI the other day to extend a blank wall so I could crop the image better, but I had to strip the metadata before I uploaded it to social media or it gets big flags on the posts saying "MADE WITH AI".
Re: The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
#7Every photo is a lie. https://fstoppers.com/documentary/every-photograph-youve-eve...
That’s a great topic for late night dorm bull sessions but it’s not what we’re talking about here. People know that photographers can be selective about what and how they cover things, but there’s been an understanding that photos are recording something real in a way which is no longer true at all.
Yes, people played dark room and photoshop tricks but those were labor intensive and hard to make pass a detailed examination. What we have just seen is the equivalent of jumping from the age of archery to machine guns without much time for society to adjust and develop safeguards.
Re: The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
#8As someone who's role involves some elements of image editing, Adobe's GenAI feature is a welcome tool... however, as someone who's read 1984 and is concerned about the future tidal wave of scams, I'm not so keen on ever a$$hole and his/her dog being enabled.
I love Adobe's GenAI, but I also hate it. The problem is it has been programmed with some pseudo Judeo-Christian moral guidelines. Trying to edit my gf's beach pics to remove crap from the background, it freaks out on some bikini pics and pops-up with an angry yellow box, basically lecturing you on your life choices for not covering your entire skin with clothing. You have to chop the image into new documents, fix ea…
> The problem is it has been programmed with some pseudo Judeo-Christian moral guidelines.
That's because there are already a multitude of services offering to "nudify" people for cash (which the customers then not just use for their own spank bank but for extorting women), and Adobe does not want to be associated with that kind of disgusting (and in some jurisdictions illegal) behavior.
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#9Every photo is a lie. https://fstoppers.com/documentary/every-photograph-youve-eve...
That statement is similar to the "everything has been done before", or "everything is art" reductivism.
There's a marked difference between fixing the color shift to better capture the mood and straight up removing people like Stalin's photos.
Re: The AI photo editing era is here, and it's every person for themselves
#10As if people didn't photoshop the hell out of photos before. This "era" began 20 years ago. Look at instagram, for the last decade these techniques were applied without ai.
Scale and quality are an important distinction. For example, rich people had paintings for thousands of years but the world changed when photography meant anyone could have better images for far lower cost, and then again when they became effectively free and ubiquitous.