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Photography and A.I. Computer generated A.I. Image of a bearded man by DALL-E

Photography and AI: Are AI-Generated Images Photographs?

AI generated images can imitate the visual language of photography, but in doing so they disrupt our traditional understanding of what a photograph is. Unlike conventional photographs, generative AI images often have no physical subject or original photographic event. This makes studying them interesting when considered through photographic theory, documentary truth, indexicality and Jean Baudrillard’s