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Photography will always have a place, it’s place may change and shift a bit, but it seems like anyone with access to image generation AI and Photoshop can now produce pretty amazing stuff with little to no effort.
Should artists be worried yet?
As a photographer, you can’t use AI to magic up some photos of a persons event or family portraits or a wedding, etc. It still has to be captured in real life. As such, I don’t think AI will replace photographers entirely yet. AI can be used to enhance the photos taken, sure. But until we see an AI controlling a small silent drone that is capable of considering composition, emotions and everything a photographer does, I don’t see a photographer being replaced.
Sadly, photography will change. Certain aspects of photography might become less profitable for those currently making a living from it. Things like landscape photograph and nature photography in general. Stock photography as well.
I think the group that really needs to be concerned about the developments in AI, particularly this new Photoshop generative tool I keep seeing posts about, is digital artists. Soon, using tools like MidJourney and Photoshop, amazing and unique works of art could be created in a matter of moments, by anyone regardless of talent or training.
