Is AI the new dawn for modeling sites

AI images are already banned here.

See the section Machine Generated Images in Image Upload Guidelines

Guidelines, yes, but nothing to enforce them.

SunrisePhoto did you not read it? They are banned on here and will be removed. Persistent offenders will be banned from the site. It will be enforced.

SunrisePhoto they get removed and the creator has to send in proof that it's not an ai generated image for it to be re-installed.

It's quite simple any Ai generated image should be labelled as fake, and not really classed as a photograph

On social media many images and some models, use social media filters, that also make images fake and false

Edited by John Moore Creative Photography

‘ Serious photo businesses class AI as junk ‘

Isn’t true. High end commercial work regularly uses AI. Especially but not exclusively for backgrounds.

Even Rankin is exploring it.

I honestly think eventually you won't be able to tell what's AI and what's not.

John Moore Creative Photography there’s no clear boundary between retouching and ‘filtering’. Post production has been. Part of photography since it’s inception.

I think taking an original image and using AI as part of the editing process is ok! Editing has always evolved. The issue is when a photo it COMPLETELY ai generated and people pretending they have taken it

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Spartacusimages said

I honestly think eventually you won't be able to tell what's AI and what's not.

That concerns me as well. 

Orson Carter said

Spartacusimages said

I honestly think eventually you won't be able to tell what's AI and what's not.

That concerns me as well. 

I'm already scrolling through excruciating video content on youtube and struggling to tell if the author is simply inept or it is machine-generated. Either away atrocious content is driving me away fast. AI can't die soon enough for me.

Simon Carter said

John Moore Creative Photography there’s no clear boundary between retouching and ‘filtering’. Post production has been. Part of photography since it’s inception.

My enjoyment is taking the photo right first time lighting, composure and enjoying it. Last thing I want is to spend hours editing.  If editing takes more than 5 min then I haven’t taken the photo correctly

John Moore Creative Photography said

Simon Carter said

John Moore Creative Photography there’s no clear boundary between retouching and ‘filtering’. Post production has been. Part of photography since it’s inception.

My enjoyment is taking the photo right first time lighting, composure and enjoying it. Last thing I want is to spend hours editing.  If editing takes more than 5 min then I haven’t taken the photo correctly

Your preference doesn't mean it's 'fake & false' if someone else does retouch, though.

AI is in a period of growth, both in distribution/availability and quality of content. I can foresee a day (perhaps sooner than I would like) where it will become a genuine alternative to the photographic image.

Most of us are, shall I say... mature males - nurturing a love of photography and the female form that has been with us since our youth. I bought my first 35mm SLR when I was 19 and started photographing all sorts of things with gusto. That joy has never left me. I'm sure there are many ladies out there too, sharing the same story.

But the youth of today have been raised on computers and smartphones. In some instances, these can come close to the modern camera and so they are drawn to them as we were to the SLR. AI is set to fill the gap between capture and final image in a way that will exceed anything my darkroom ever achieved. It can provide the starting picture, or the finished image as you wish. So I wonder - will our youth bother to pick up a "proper" camera as we did... And if not, will there be anyone to follow us when we're gone?

Orson has every right to be concerned. I am too...