A.I. Image Generators Spark Debate Over Photography's Relationship to Truth
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A.I. image generators are producing highly realistic fake images, raising questions about the definition of photography and photographic truth.
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Artists like Laurie Simmons see A.I. as a natural evolution of image manipulation, while photojournalist Alejandro Cartagena argues A.I. images are still photographic in nature.
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Trevor Paglen believes photos have never recorded absolute truth, while Charlie Engman values the photograph's relationship to reality, even if illusionary.
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Reactions tend to fall into camps of alarmists, optimists and perspectivists putting A.I. in historical context with past technological leaps like the shift from film to digital.
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Having lived through the film to digital debate, Cartagena sees the friction around A.I. as inevitable and is less inclined to fight the technological shift.