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My photography road trip across the country comes to an end. In this last episode, I let the AI plot the route back home. I asked it to highlight some lesser-know spots along the way that I could photograph, and the results were... interesting.
The story behind a piece of art can be as important, if not more, than the piece itself. How we make art matters, a lot.
Today, there's more and better photography being made every day than ever before. And this is only going to get worse with the rise of AI. Yet, I believe that photography as an art has a bright future, because there's one thing that only human photographers can offer, something you should start doing as soon as possible if you want to stand out among the noise.
Self-play is a concept that I find fascinating: artificial intelligence can learn how to play games -like chess- by playing against themselves over and over. Starting from scratch, with no knowledge of what works and what doesn't, machines eventually come up with strategies and plays that surprise even grandmasters, who reward them as "creative". This made me think about photography: how we look for inspiration in other photographers' work, and the value of experimentation.
Read MoreIn this day and age where AI is starting to take over photography (see: portraits of people that don't exist made by AI, one is tempted to think that photography is doomed.
I believe this might open new opportunities for (human) artists, actually.
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