Game changer

I don’t claim to be an amazing photographer. I’ve taken some good photos and I’ve taken some alright photos, but I’m always still learning. But the one thing that I can never remember to do it clean my lens during a shoot. And because a lot of my shoots take place on windy beaches:

or in or around dusty horseriding arenas:

…this is often a big problem.

Of course, I always remember as soon as I open the image in Lightroom, and that’s when I start weeping about all the post-processing I’m going to have to do to remove the seventy-five dust spots per image.

I can be done. It is done. But wow, it’s a proper shlep.

Not any more.

New Lightroom thing ahoy!

The AI-powered Dust Removal feature in the Distraction Removal panel automatically detects and removes dust spots in a photo, created by dust on your camera’s sensor or lens.

I don’t like using AI on my photos (and so I don’t), but this basically just automates a task I was going to do manually anyway, so I think it’s ok.

And having given it a go, I now think it’s much better than ok.

Incredible. Three clicks and the whole lot sorted.

Not a fan of AI taking over every aspect of our daily lives, but actually quite a big fan of it doing this sort of thing for me, thank you very much.

I don’t like this…

…but not just for the reasons that Casey Neistat shares in this video.

Absolutely, I agree that AI is going to kill creative industries. And that’s both scary and sad. Progress is moving so quickly these days that we’re struggling to keep up with it and even worse, we’re struggling to keep up with what its effects might be.

But this particular app is bad news, and not just because of the slop that is replacing decent video-making (beautifully explained by Casey, by the way). Not just because of the bullying aspect that he touches on in the video. Not just because it’s just going to fill up our timelines with yet heaps more utter shite, hiding all the (ever-decreasing) decent stuff.

I’m more concerned by just how good this is at what it does. This is going to fool a lot of people and it will absolutely be used nefariously to fool a lot of people. Whether that’s in politics, in phishing scams or in personal relationships, giving the average voter* access to this sort of technology will not end well.

Tipping point stuff.

* “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill

Well played, HIGNFY

Spotted online yesterday. It made me laugh.

We mentioned the AI vs Creative Industry problem earlier in the week, and obviously, it goes for music as well. Thankfully, I’ve not heard much AI-generated stuff (yet), and if it’s anything like the images and the videos, then I’m really not sure I want to.

As for Thom’s more recent stuff – hey – I like to be challenged occasionally, but actually, it’s really not that bad.

Discover how casino AI is revolutionizing online sports betting

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AI – still not quite there

Actually, AI is still quite a long way off if we’re looking at this sort of thing.

Here’s some AI video art shared on this IG account.

“Some of the most memorable and strange moments in the Tour de France over the years.”

It’s clearly not completely rubbish: there are the hills, the pastures, the white guys in lycra and the crowds looking on. If you were shown this and asked what event it was, you would say “It’s the Tour de France”, but I mean, it’s still really pretty awful, isn’t it? That wave of pixels when the peloton crashes at 13 seconds is really the only believable bit for me.

I did love one comment on the video:

If only we could freeze AI right where it is now, between creative utility and hilarity.

Which sums it all up just about perfectly.

(sorry about the big black bars – WP can’t handle reels very well.) 🙁