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Lol, I love when (especially, terrible) people make shit like this thinking they're making a fantastic point, but are in fact just displaying their wilful ignorance of the thing they're mocking, for posterity..
(To be clear - thinking that using a camera to capture an image is the same as using AI to generate an image shows a lack of understanding of either, or both, those fields)
I think the point you're missing is modern cameras (especially smart phone cameras) already have AI and don't "capture" what they see accurately.
In fact photographers going back into the earliest days of photography have been modifying photos with all the tools available to them.
Generative AI is just the latest tool in the toolbox and still requires skill and creativity to get good results.
This cartoon is stupid and the artist is a Nazi, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If the person who made this wanted to make a point about mobile phone cameras, they should have drawn one of them, but they very deliberately drew an SLR/DSLR (E: though to be fair it would make little difference to my point). There is also nothing here about editing or modifying, just a camera. Both things being tools still doesn't make them comparable in the way they are trying to be compared here. I also literally never said anything negative about AI (it has some uses), yet you are getting oddly defensive of it.
So I'm not the one missing anything, you are the one creating a strawman because you think I said something bad about your current favourite brand of tech-woo lol
Except that the comic clearly doesn't include a phone camera.
There's some correctness to this, but I take issue with this line:
No. The vast vast majority aren't. More digital photos are being taken now than ever before.
And even for the absolutely miniscule amount of people who do take photos with old-style equipment, they almost never do it exclusively.
On top of that, it doesn't mean doing it using modern tools is fake either
There are people who do woodworking without power tools. Are those people the only people who are really creating something?