Is true digital creativity dying?

Just embrace AI mate, it's never going away. Things have and will be changed permanently. No going back.

I like that everything looks better and higher quality. People don't have to study, take classes, buy expensive software to then spend hours editing a photo to make it look good. That was always absurd.

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don't know what's real anymore at times on social media.

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Well, nearly nothing was real to begin with. #WyomingSkiTrip #6FiguresInCreditCardDebt #LivingOurBestLife .

What irritates me more is that some dumb "content creator" can fake video that's better than CGI in movies or shows with 7 figure budgets. I'm looking at you, Star City (Apple) and the ridiculous bear in a recent episode.

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.