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AI 'Street Photography' Isn't Photography: What We Lose by Simulating Experience
When we pretend AI generation is street photography, we're not just misusing terms—we're surrendering authentic engagement with reality.
When I spotted a crowd gathered around two metal barrels, smoke and paper ash in the air, something pulled me off that bus and into the scene. This is a classic case of tools displacing users: a device appears making things so easy to the point of undermining our fundamental human capacity to do it ourselves. Baudrillard would likely recognize this as the “precession of simulacra” at work: AI photography is not just a copy of reality, but a representation without original.
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