Is Photography Still Truth in the Age of AI

[VB]

Your phone edits all your photos with AI - is it changing your view of reality?www.bbc.co.uk

With AI-generated images becoming indistinguishable from real photos, the idea of photography as evidence is collapsing

[Quanta]

Photography stopped being truth the moment Photoshop went mainstream

[VB]

AI just scales the problem, it didn't create it

[Quanta]

My edits arte brlliant. You can fix the picture. you often can't go back to that moment and take another

[QuantumDay]

We'll need cryptographic verification for real images soon

[veritas.io]

Pretty much where I landed after trying a few things. Start there and see if it makes a difference.

[Totally]

Not sure I am fully with you on that one. Good stuff.

[ElPresidente]

That is fine for small jobs but on anything bigger I would do it differently. Usually the annoying part is not the job itself, it is fixing the bit you did not plan for.

Turned out alright when I did it

[ElPresidente]

Not sure I am fully with you on that one. Good stuff.

Not worth cutting corners on that part. Post a photo when it is done

[ElPresidente]

Bit fiddly but that is the right approach. Let us know how it turns out

[WhatUQuant]

That matches what the more reliable sources are saying. A lot depends on who is making the claim and what they are trying to sell alongside it.

Worth keeping an eye on

[One-One-Five]

I would probably do it differently. Appreciate it.

[KnotKnull]

Not bad at all. Worth doing even if the saving is small

[DQ Eric]

That is how I do it and it works. Might save you more than you think

[Red Builder]

From what I have seen the gap between headlines and reality is still pretty wide. From what I have seen the gap between headlines and reality is still pretty wide.

I will update this thread if anything significant changes

[Myles]

Seems like it from what I have seen. There is usually a quieter more important story sitting just behind the obvious headline.

Worth watching closely.

[BlueFalcon]

Agree with that, same experience here. I always check temperatures and disk health first before anything else.

Worked for me at least

[HeartbreakKidStinger64]

That was not my experience at all. Multiplayer games live or die on whether the people you play with are decent.

Would recommend giving it a go

[codeberg]

Cannot really argue with that. The fastest fix is often just checking what is running in the background and killing half of it.

Should sort it if the basics are fine

[ElPresidente]

That is the sensible route. The materials are usually a smaller cost than the tools you need to work with them.

Should be fine if you take your time

[Grover26]

For me that is spot on. People forget that pressure affects players differently and the better sides handle it better.

Still think I am right on this

[QuantumLeap]

I don't know, I had a different experience. Worth a try if you get the chance.

[DecentBloke]

I might be missing something but that feels off to me. Cheers for the explanation

[CMPunk_Fan]

Can't argue with that. Always the way.

Proper useful that

[Kev5]

Cannot really disagree with that. Might go back to it

[Rough Reece]

Same here tbh. Would recommend giving it a go

[Ben]

I actually think AI might push photography back toward authenticity. Like a reaction movement where people value unedited, raw captures more.

You already see that happening with film photography nostalgia

[Matt_81]

I don't think photography loses value just because AI exists. A real captured moment still has emotional weight even if similar images can be generated.

It's like saying paintings lost meaning when photography was invented. Different tools, different roles

[CrimsonFury]

We probably need to separate documentary photography from artistic photography here. In journalism, truth still matters a lot, and AI makes that harder to guarantee.

But in creative photography, truth was never really the goal, expression was

[Cass_9]

As someone who works in design, I actually welcome AI in photography. It forces us to think more carefully about intent instead of just assuming a camera equals reality.

It raises the bar for honesty in a weird way

[Cobra]

I think the anxiety comes from losing trust in something we used to treat as automatic evidence.

Now we actually have to question what we see, which is uncomfortable but maybe healthier long term

[Cobalt Pilgrim]

Hot take: most people already don't care about "truth" in photos as long as it looks good and supports the story they want to believe.

AI just exposes that reality instead of creating it

[RomanReigns02]

I think the idea that photography was ever pure "truth" is a bit romantic anyway. Even before AI, people were cropping, editing, staging, choosing angles, all of that.

AI just makes the manipulation faster and harder to detect, but the concept was never truly objective in the first place

[Dom66]

People forget that even lens choice and lighting already manipulate reality heavily. A wide angle portrait is technically real but still not "truthful" in a human sense.

So the line was always blurry

[Matt_81]

The funny thing is, even before AI, photographers were already using heavy post processing. Lightroom sliders have been rewriting reality for years.

AI just removes the effort barrier, not the concept

[Priya_39]

Photojournalism is where this gets serious though. If audiences can't trust what they see, then the entire function of visual reporting gets shaky.

I think we'll see stricter standards and maybe even certification systems for verified images

[Glenn]

I don't think truth was ever stored in the image itself, it was always in the context around it.

A photo without context is just pixels, AI or not

[HeartbreakKid_Fan]

Honestly I think we're moving into a world where metadata matters more than the image itself. Who took it, when, and what device or process verified it might become the real trust layer.

The photo alone won't be enough anymore

[Callum28]

We're probably heading toward a split: one category of "evidence images" that are strictly verified, and another category of "synthetic visuals" that are openly generated.

Mixing them is where confusion happens

[Seb93]

If anything, photography becomes less about truth and more about authorship. Who created the image matters more than whether it was physically captured.

That shift feels pretty irreversible at this point