I expect that my role as a programmer/CS researcher will be 100% automated before I can hire a robot to be even a mediocre photographer.
I think image models are getting good enough at fidelity that you could, hypothetically, have some random guy take pictures of an event, and then postprocess them with an image model to make the lighting and perspective better without it being visibly AI-generated.
Even if a robot could paint something nice, I suspect that people buying paintings will prefer that they were made by a human
This isn’t limited to art. Even generic, boring cubicle jobs prefer humans on the basis that they can be held accountable and can (usually)explain the reasoning behind anything they did. Also, because of the variousbullshit job reasons(Flunkies, box-tickers, and goons definitely can’t be automated).
>I think image models are getting good enough at fidelity that you could, hypothetically, have some random guy take pictures of an event, and then postprocess them with an image model to make the lighting and perspective better without it being visibly AI-generated.
I have done this with the best recent models, and almost nobody has been able to tell. It is absolutely trivial to take a photo on a phone, and ask Nano Banana to “make it look like it was taken by a professional photographer using a DSLR applying expert color grading.” Easy as that.
I think image models are getting good enough at fidelity that you could, hypothetically, have some random guy take pictures of an event, and then postprocess them with an image model to make the lighting and perspective better without it being visibly AI-generated.
This isn’t limited to art. Even generic, boring cubicle jobs prefer humans on the basis that they can be held accountable and can (usually) explain the reasoning behind anything they did. Also, because of the various bullshit job reasons (Flunkies, box-tickers, and goons definitely can’t be automated).
>I think image models are getting good enough at fidelity that you could, hypothetically, have some random guy take pictures of an event, and then postprocess them with an image model to make the lighting and perspective better without it being visibly AI-generated.
I have done this with the best recent models, and almost nobody has been able to tell. It is absolutely trivial to take a photo on a phone, and ask Nano Banana to “make it look like it was taken by a professional photographer using a DSLR applying expert color grading.” Easy as that.