What Is A Photo In The Age Of AI?

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What Is A Photo In The Age Of AI?
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The article explores the changing definition of photography in the era of AI, with executives from major smartphone makers like Samsung and Google offering their perspectives on what constitutes a 'real' photo. It highlights the blurring lines between reality and digital manipulation as AI tools increasingly influence every aspect of the photography process.

We’ve been tracking the slow redefinition of photography for years now here at The Verge — I am pretty sure we kicked off the “what is a photo” debate as it relates to smartphone photography on The Vergecast sometime in 2018, with a live show on the topic in 2019. But things started changing fast this year, as more and more companies roll out AI tools that totally redefine how images are made at every step of the photography process, from composition to capture to editing.

“When you define a memory as that there is a fallibility to it: You could have a true and perfect representation of a moment that felt completely fake and completely wrong. What some of these edits do is help you create the moment that is the way you remember it, that’s authentic to your memory and to the greater context, but maybe isn’t authentic to a particular millisecond.

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