Is true digital creativity dying?

I can embrace some aspects of AI, but the fake stuff popping up everywhere now because of it is tiring.

Organic material is a dying breed.

Meh, all pictures have been edited since the day they were invented. It's just now available to the masses. I think that's kind of cool. I use a 50 year-old 35mm SLR a lot, and the editing begins with what film stock I use and goes from there. Aperture and shutter speed. Development chemicals and time. Scanning negatives and correcting color. There's like a dozen choices I can make along the way to affect the final image. Or, I can take a picture with my phone, run it through a lightroom preset, and boom, a decent picture.

Creative people will always find ways to be creative. It's all about using what's available to you to get the image to where you want it. Does it communicate what you want it to communicate? Whether that's using a physical dodging tool in a dark room or telling AI to lighten a certain part of the picture. I can look at a physical film print from a darkroom and an AI-assisted image and appreciate them both for what they are.

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It’s pretty funny how each step in democratizing technology brings a new round of the same complaints.

Guys who spent $20,000 on cinema drones 10 years ago can’t reproduce the quality of a newbie with a $1,500 drone today. Creativity isn’t tied to the technology but high cost entry deters people who are creative.