What I’m trying to say is there is nothing of you in the image, save whatever you told the machine to make. The artist is absent. You are, at best, a commissioner of machine-made images. And I just don’t think there’s artistic value in that.
To reinforce my point, let’s say I told my camera to get a specific picture of a cardinal, and it sprouted legs and ran into the woods, only returning when if thought it had fulfilled whatever criteria I described. Am I still the photographer? I wouldn’t say so, I didn’t line up the shot.
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However beautiful those pictures may or may not be, I’m not involved in the shooting of them, outside of describing what I want the picture to look like. Why would I describe myself as a photographer?
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Your key mistake seems to be ascribing agency to the AI just because people interact with it via natural language.
If your camera is on a motorized stand that responds to voice commands (i.e. "turn left" or "zoom in"), would that also make you not the artist because you said "take picture"?
