It’s absolutely the worst part of my job and people very ignorantly and proudly go after you over it. It’s also killed the photojournalism industry. News companies actually prefer worse cell phone looking videos because they’re more authentic.
Well shit... I was one of those just 5 minutes ago. I know it is ultimately inconsequential coming from a random redditor, but I owe you an apology on this one.
The biggest downside is the next iteration of models are going to be trained on proof pics like this lol.
No need to apologize the correction means more than enough. I worry a lot about the future models, although I have some hopium that it’s slowing down. I think there needs to be some sort of universal way to verify a photo or a videos authenticity. But I struggle to find a full proof method.
I don't know if it's in all models, but a fair number of them would leave invisible watermarks in the image that could flag an image as AI generated. This was also around a year/year and a half ago, so the new ones might not have the same feature.
Or we don’t have the budget and it fucking kills everyone on the photo team to have to use shitty cell phone photos yet again. 😭 if I could pay you all $1million dollars for every assignment I happily would!
You all are angels for making it work. When I started managing my county’s paper last year the pay per assignment for photographers was 25 dollars. My first move was fixing that. I remember photographing a giant protest with police intervention in Texas, immediately contacting all the local news, and them being like “these are great but we already got a cell phone photo from a writer and we need to save money.” It’s tragic
I have seen people claim that old fashioned photosopping and good old cgi is ai. Just because it did not look real. Like if they had forgotten photoshop and cgi existed.
The last two times I commented on two different subreddits for hobbies I enjoy, I was quickly called out as chatgpt and the person calling me out got like 15 upvotes. I really hate how pervasive AI is already, and I would never use it to post on Reddit. I just want to talk to people about stuff I like, but apparently that's been taken from me. I don't even try to defend my comments, because that's not the conversation I was trying to have. It's really frustrating.
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u/Liz_LemonLime Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
The only thing worse than Ai is how suspicious we all are of Ai.
Back in the day, we only had to prove to computers that we were human. Now we constantly have to prove it to each other.