AI photo software can replace some types of traditional photography at a very low cost. But there are dangers to using these types of apps that you might not have considered.
AI photography software such as PhotoAI.me or PhotoAI.com can create synthetic but believable photos of a subject, making it unnecessary to take actual photos with a camera. If you want a photo of a subject, you simply upload a variety of photos of that subject. With enough sample photos, the software will then be able to generate any photo of that same subject in a variety of styles. For example, for $14.85, PhotoAI.me can generate 100 photos follow a theme such as the “LinkedIn Pack” that show the subject as a professional, or the “Tinder Pack” for creating photos for dating profiles.
It’s virtually impossible for professional photographers to compete with the cost of AI-generated photography. Photographers justifiably worry about whether they might lose some of their customers to AI photography. But are there hidden risks to using AI photography?
One risk is that users are giving the company data about the subject’s appearance and enabling the company to simulate their likeness. Assuming the subject has consented, there’s no immediate harm. But what if a criminal gains unauthorized access to that data? They can create false images of the subject and use them for nefarious purposes such as damaging their reputation, extortion, or even falsely implicating them in a crime.
There are other risks as well. If you ask someone for the password to their phone, most people would obviously refuse. Yet by uploading photos of their face to an AI app, it may be possible for the AI app to generate a sufficiently detailed 3D model of the subject’s face that may be used to defeat face recognition biometric security measures.
Moreover, if you are a photographer who uses AI photography professionally, and the subject’s photo ends up being abused in one of these ways, the photographer might be liable to the subject.
These are just some of the ways AI photography may give new meaning to the saying, “Cheap things are expensive.”
What do you think? Do you agree? Let me know in the comments!
when we do photoshoots on the beach and use iconic places, people want photos to remember they were really there. Weddings and pictures are for memories.
Ai can never replace that, fake is fake and its not sentimental.
Ai is never going to be competition for that reason alone