Hello Srajan, I read your thread with Mike and can appreciate how harvesting by AI could present potential new copyright challenges. I'm curious how much AI you personally use on this site? Thank you, Conrad
Hello Conrad, good question. I deliberately didn't update my Photoshop 2026 license with its optional AI features. All basic photo processing I do remains legacy Photoshop which already was a form of AI. And I occasionally use current AI as embedded in Google for a very specific search query which gets me information I want far quicker than manual trawling. But as I've found numerous times, that information can be wrong. For example, I had Gemini look at a photo of a component I took to identify what a specific part was I had not seen before. I somehow didn't trust the result so also asked an engineer. And presto, Gemini had it wrong. That's my extent of its use then. I don't apply AI for language edits or rewrites whatsoever. That would undermine my enjoyment of the creative process. But I do know other websites in our space which do. One thing AI does is democratize the creative process. Even beginners in a craft, be it writing, painting, making a video or composing music, can use AI to produce results far beyond their own technical skills. But differences remain, between an already skilled artist using AI and one who is a bare beginner. It's a tool and like using any other tool, time and application improve our handling of it—especially when that tool becomes auto-adaptive and self-learning. For example, the other day I saw AI-generated images which a working graphic designer had created with his own programming to visualize his astral travels to other worlds. Like Dante he has explored the so-called hell realms and various heavens on the other side and kept detailed records of what he saw. To convey those visual impressions to others, he now exploits AI for photo-realist renders. They apparently are so accurate that fellow inner travellers who have been to the same places recognize them clearly. That's certainly a very unique way of using AI. It starts with a man deeply trained in the visual arts who then has super-precise recalls of sceneries he wants to translate into 2D images. He keeps tweaking his programs and effects running through countless iterations of a particular image until he is happy that the result matches his recall. Srajan
Hello Srajan, thanks for the answer. Do you mind sharing the name of that artist? Thank you, Conrad
Jurgen Ziewe. A good start is this link. You can also find two interviews with him on batgap.com. Srajan
