Will AI kill the art and business of photography?

Artists have always faced hard labor and mental strain. Photographers, for example, had to endure the hardships of lugging around heavy equipment and developing their own film, traveling to remote locations, and often waiting for the perfect moment to take a picture. To take this photograph of a polar bear in its natural habitat, National Geographic photographer Paula Nirdon had to travel to the Arctic and spend days in subzero temperature waiting for the bear to emerge from its den.

Today, emerging AI image synthesizers such as DALLE, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, are capable of creating stunning, photo-realistic images, and some artists feeling the heat¹. Read More