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   Graphicai on November 3, 2023 at 12:20 am

   As a former graphic designer and retired photographer, I agree with you 100%.

   I have been cringing ever since AI raised its ugly head. You can sense the decline of ingenuity and artistic expression at the other side of AI increase of popularity. I don’t mind tools to help me mask complicated objects in a photo in order to enhance MY work, but not to replace my interactivity with my photo subject!

   One horrendous example is this year’s Adobe MAX that featured as it usually does, exciting innovations in all the artistic tools that a photographer, videographer, designer and other visual artists use. In the past, I would marvel at those who worked to create and improve these tools that helped express art in any way we wanted.

   This year I checked out some previews of the latest updates in many apps and I was appalled at the utter juvenile examples that were presented in front of a live paying attendees. I was astounded how these same dedicated people who work with sophisticated professional tools are applauding and gushing at the garbage that Adobe presenters were showing them as Adobe’s latest achievements. I expected there to be silence and then gasping with disgust, and then leaving the theatre and demanding their money back!

   “Is this where we are in 2023?” I thought. “Where has the creativity gone?”. “Has everyone just lost it?!”

   When Luminar NEO, a somewhat Photoshop competitor came out a few years ago, I purchased it based on some good experience with previous versions’ useful tools that helped me edit my photos. This newer version introduced an early version of AI and I was pretty disgusted with it. It was a downgrade as far as I was concerned. That was the first time I demanded (and received) my money back and deleted the app. I also sent a long letter to Luminar with my criticism and disappointment at this app.

   I am not a Luddite by any means. I embrace technology when it helps me complete a typically tedious task that would otherwise take me many hours to complete whereas my time could be better used to artistically improve my art. I may use better paper so my photo could look better, and pigment based inks so it would last longer, but I certainly don’t wish to just click a few buttons and expect a computer with AI to generate a conceived photo without doing any photography!

   Thanks,

   Bari Tarmon

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     Knox on November 5, 2023 at 10:00 pm

     Bari-

     Thanks for the insights. Nice to have a name for you as well. :)
     I really appreciate your taking time to share this. I have nothing to add, except that I’ve long thought that Instagram kind of killed Pixels (ten years ago I got 200 entries a day) … and now AI is killing Instagram.

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