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Maggie Appleton
@maggieappleton.com

What’s everyone’s physical labour backup career? I’m thinking family photographer. Maybe interior designer? I’m not good at either of those things… yet. But I reckon I could make it work if all white collar jobs melt down into the GPUs.

Maggie Appleton
@maggieappleton.com

How will an image generator capture my children’s expressions at this particular moment in time? At this specific age? In their home, surrounded by the objects of their life? Photography is about capturing real, specific moments in time; how people look and feel right now. AI can do none of that.

Maggie Appleton
@maggieappleton.com

I’ve seen levels.io’s AI image products and I’m baffled by anyone paying for fake images of themselves, in places they’ve never been, bearing facing expressions they don’t make, augmented to be weirdly sexual when that’s not the vibe. What is the point? To remember moments you never experienced?

Maggie Appleton
@maggieappleton.com

With interior design some parts can be AI collab, but it’s still a physical job demanding an understanding of light, texture, space, and, most of all, meeting human needs for a home. What activities does this space enable and encourage, how does storage work, etc. But family photography, not at all

Jeroen ✦ 98→
@jeroen.wtf

Because people like you and me wants the photos for ourselves and maybe close ones, for the memories and the feels. People that use these AI image products usually have insecurities and just want them for other people’s approval. Of course I’m generalising but I think that’s the gist of it.