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> But people have be editing photos like that before AI and even before Photoshop

Very few people who had the skill, time or money. I think we are now discovering that everybody wants to edit the photos, they just couldn't do it before in what they consider a reasonable amount of effort.

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Yes, I agree, but I am specifically looking to understand the above photographer's point. They said the requests they used to get versus what they get today have changed, but I argue that that doesn't make any sense, people have always wanted to edit their photos in the "now" example even back then.

It totally makes sense that people don't request things they don't expect to be possible.

My point is that their "these days" example was already possible 20 to 30 years ago, so if they're just seeing these requests today then they're missing out on what people have wanted even back then.

In other words: this is a complaint about how cheap modified pictures, that look real at first glance, are.

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