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Right on target. I also see this tendency of young people not caring for what it is real. It seems everything should be just like magic, no effort at all.

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Good observations. AI is so outside of my process as a photographer, as well, that I feel that it doesn't concern me. But I guess I haven't given much thought to the fact that the folks who buy prints of my work are purchasing it mostly because it represents a place they know and love. AI isn't able to replicate landscapes well enough to match real locations, but I'm sure that's coming. The old trope of someone purchasing art because of the artist's individual story is going to take on intense scrutiny in this new age.

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I think you have it about right. I love landscapes but I am not even a tiny bit interested in an AI landscape, or portrait, or anything for that matter. Using it to get a blog outlline or a first draft logo is fine, but that is work product NOT the final producr. Thanks for the comment.

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This is spot on. I've always thought of this sort of thing as the "low hanging fruit." Way back when digital cameras replaced film and made photography way more accessible and flattened the learning curve, that took away a lot of "low hanging fruit" of assignments that would have been previously hired out to a photographer. This is a continuation of the same. When what you want is a cool image without the specific things a "real" photograph brings, there's no reason not to see if the machine will generate the picture you need.

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