Professional photographers are different to everyday phone-photo takers because they have the experience built up over so many years in that sector, same as AI SWE, where the humans in the loop need experience to master AI SWE.
AI isn't a better keyboard. The goal is to automate the decision making.
Taste is a set of heuristics for what's worked for the taster in the past. AI is very good at heuristics.
Your argument seems to be that because of this training, the result will be better art than the human photographer could produce. I'd say there's at least as good a chance that the training will make the photography worse art than the human photographer could produce.
This is all possible now. I don’t think it’s dead (yet), but it’s certainly becoming more weird and artificial.
It pretty much is. And it won't
I am not a shill, I do not work for any AI company, and I used to think like you.
But I've come to terms with the fact that Sonnet 5.5 does most aspects of my job better than me and faster than me.
It made a mistake? No problem, feed the mistake back to it. I have yet to have it fail when it iterated on its mistakes. All that happens asynchronously in the background and quite rapidly with 5.5.
If you find yourself in that position it's a skill issue, or a job issue.
But there is a decision outside of AI directing this.
I suspect the same is happening in tech. Nobody asks for software engineering. They just want simple basic accounting of life's events. They didn't ask for kernels, FreeBSD, Ruby on Rails, interrupt handlers, register allocations, APIs, Python, Golang, Rust, HTML, containerization, USB and passkeys. They wanted a way to register that party A bought a bunch of Bs and Cs and that it was paid for using Ds. That person X is in control of Y and that this control was active in period Y through Z. I can keep going for a while. None of the bullshit we created was ever essential complexity. We are drowning in astronomical and I mean biblical amounts of accidental complexity and I feel our paintbrush moment is getting nearer by the day.
One uses the imagination of a human to do it though.
Yes, she knew an assload about lighting, composition, etc.
But her primary skill was marketing herself. Next most important was the editing. Lightroom and such.
You would be surprised how easy it is to take an awesome photo. But you can't just deliver an awesome photo to your clients when you're a pro, you have to deliver photos that look like what they want to remember, not necessarily what the camera captured
Interesting read on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
Of course, you won't make a living painting. A handful of people might, but it isn't a career choice worth taking.
Writing, it was claimed, will destroy the ability of people to remember anything.