So most recently, Berlin photographer Boris Eldagsen won a photography competition and turned down the award. Why; the image that won was not a “real” photography. It was generated by A.I in what most are now calling Promptography; the act or art of generating images by stringing together words (what formerly would be none as captioning except the case is reverse).
This process was started about 6 years ago and the tremendous progress that has arisen in the field is shocking and on some level has people in the graphics and photography world a little worried; fascinated but worried none the less.
Prompts are essentially “Work instructions in spoken form to an AI system” and in Boris’ own words;
“I’ve been photographing for 30 years. The more I know about the technique of photography, the more I can control that an AI image looks like a real photograph.”
Promptography is still relatively new but with the rate at with A.I systems are advancing and being incorporated into every day systems, it wouldn’t be long before what Boris can do becomes common knowledge.
Adobe has already introduced the ‘Adobe Firefly’, an A.I system that basically does imaging composites whilst their other applications like Photoshop, Lightroom, Premier Pro and others have introduced A.I sub components to increase workflow speeds and ease various processes.
To read an A.I’s opinion on Photography and the Creative Process; click hereand to learn more about Promptography, click the link below;
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Header Image Credit; Boris Eldagsen
