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What Must Remain Human in Modern Image-Making?
Hi everyone, photographers, retouchers, models, creatives.
I’m opening this thread because the industry is moving fast. AI is entering workflows, deadlines are shrinking, and more and more images can be “finished” before there’s even time to fully understand the responsibility behind what we publish. I’m not anti-technology. I’m not here to slow progress. But I am concerned about something very specific: When speed takes over the process, standards can slip, and responsibility for the final image becomes unclear on ethical, creative, and professional levels. So I’d love to ask you directly: What must remain human in modern image-making - no matter how advanced tools become? A few angles to conside: 1. Where should human judgment still be non-negotiable? 2. What parts of the process require taste, restraint, and responsibility (not just output)? 3. What does ethical authorship look like now and who owns that responsibility? 4. For models: what do you want to be protected as standards evolve? 5. For photographers + retouchers: what lines should we not cross, even if we can? I’m genuinely curious to hear different perspectives, not to argue, but to define what we want to protect together. If you reply, it would help if you mention your role (photographer / retoucher / model / other). Jan 01 26 10:30 pm Link Personally I appreciate the natural authentic beauty and form of real life individuals and the extraordinary skill and imagination of artists and photographers who have used their special talent to capture the likeness of their subjects in ways that has given the world some of the most iconic images, since the time their respective mediums began.
Be it the painting of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, or the photograph of Nastassja Kinski with the Serpent by Richard Avedon. Both are timeless images created by real individuals whose artistic skills have captured the true beauty and essence of their subjects in works of art that have gone on to become cultural phenomenon. Now we wait to see if 'fake' art created through Artificial Intelligence can ever compare and/or compete. https://fstoppers.com/business/how-surv … ist-667164 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edi … hotography Jan 02 26 10:57 am Link Beautifully said. The question today may be less about whether AI can compete visually, and more about who stands behind the image, and whether we’re willing to accept output without ownership as the new norm. Jan 03 26 03:29 pm Link I wanted to respond to your post to let you know, that presently many of us are likely to be in much the same boat. I realise that creatives can be introverts, and presently may be unsure about how AI will (or may) impact the future side of their business.
I started browsing through the portfolios of your 'Friends' on MM. The beauty and talent on display is like a drug and I've become a junkie photophile. Jan 04 26 07:23 am Link what a depressing post title on a site for human artists Jan 16 26 02:18 am Link D L Photo wrote: Each time after I've read a comment you post in the Forums, I click on your Avater only to find "Unable to show Member #2000987"
Jan 17 26 09:24 am Link How do you tell the difference between a fake subject in an AI generated image to that of a real human-being in a digital photograph?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-27/ … /103627436 Jan 17 26 05:52 pm Link |
