Image generation using artificial intelligence is a highly contentious issue in photography, there’s no getting away from it. It spans many ethical questions, ranging from the training of AI algorithms using images scraped from the internet without the permission of the copyright owners to questions of veracity in news and documentary photography and beyond. Not least the fear that professional photographers might one day be replaced by AI.
It’s a complex subject and it’s fair to say that as photographers, we all have our own opinions. However, the debates surrounding AI image generation aren’t black and white, and not all images created using this method are designed to mislead people into believing an alternative view of the world or reality. Some images are created out of curiosity, and that was Andrea Pizzini’s starting point when he began
