The next big thing?

It’s clear as day to me that AI is the biggest thing humanity has ever brought forth. I don’t think it’s the next big thing, I think it’s THE ONLY THING. It will completely transform how we do literally everything, and thus it will transform the economy, society, and eventually even humanity. It will start slow with a few fun LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini, but when AGI arrives and it reaches that point of singularity, the rate of exponential growth will be mindblowing to us.

Everything will be generated…

AI will soon start taking over Hollywood, TV shows, the music industry, the erotica industry, and the videogame industry by introducing the option of generating your own content. You will be able to prompt whatever you like and get it generated within seconds. The generated content will know exactly what you like and what makes your dopamine go WOW! It will be better than anything you saw before. And you might be the only person in the world that listens to that song, watch that movie or play that game.

“A new Breaking Bad season? There you go buddy.”

“Grand Theft Auto in Amsterdam? Great idea, have fun!”

“Game of Thrones set in Edo-time period? I like your thinking, here you go!”

“You like Queen, Kanye West, and Tupac? Here’s a new album to check out that combines all of them into a new artist.”

As you can imagine, this is huge. This will shatter art-forms that were previously made by us. By humans…

But that being said, it will take some time before it all unfolds. It will unfold in the coming decades. And it will hit those industries like a brick.

Real moments can’t be generated

Of course, I will use the AI-spot removal tool in Lightroom to zapp that unnecessary bird, but I will never add anything in there that wasn’t there in the first place. I despise the use of AI tools to add things to photographs. This is also true for the use of Photoshop to add certain things that weren’t there while shooting.

I pride myself on finding magic in reality. Real moments, real people, unique one-of-a-kind magic.

In that, for now, AI can’t generate actual footage of real moments. A wedding for instance is an event in real time of real life of real people doing real things. A human still has to get out there and compose and documents these beautiful human experiences.

Robot photographers?

Maybe a service robot like Tesla’s Optimus Robots can shoot better photographs in the year 2035 of weddings, events, and even culture and travel photography. That will be a huge problem for all photographers if LLM-powered photographer-robots go out there and photograph everything we used to do for a fraction of the price. But that’s not the case for now!

We still have actual humans out there with human creativity, human ingenuity, and human craftsmanship. And we should adore that while it lasts!

We should celebrate the art of photography while we still can. We should embrace these unique moments that are being documented of real people by real people!

Using AI daily nowadays

Yes, I use ChatGPT all the time to speed up my workflow. Yes, I will let Grok create a hilarious photo to tease a buddy. Yes, I will probably have an android assistant in my household who does all the boring choirs. And yes, I will probably insert a chip in my brain that will supercharge me and make me live forever. Yes to all that, but for now nuance is needed in the art form called photography.

We need to keep it human as long as we can. The art that our species - the homo sapiens - create, should be embraced and celebrated NOW. And therefore I have launched my Fine Art Shop. These one-of-a-kind super rare collector editions (of museum quality) are all photographs of real human moments.

For me, photography is snapshotting a moment in time. A real authentic moment of reality. And that’s all of us. We. Humans. Our world. Our reality. Our art, our creativity, and our reality should not be altered into something that’s just one big AI-generated and blended megamix of what once was.

Sure, artsy photographs are cool and some funky filters turn photographs into unique artworks. But the point I’m trying to make is that we shouldn’t let AI decide what art is. We should be the ones that are the drivers behind art.

Let’s keep art human. Celebrate with me.

Why I despise using AI in photography

Travel Story #1: All alone at Mount Fuji… (during the outbreak of C19)

This is why I choose to combine physical fine art with NFTs