Ask HN: Will fashion photographers lose their jobs to AI this year?
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Levi's is already using AI models. AI will do some of the work that would have gone to a fashion photographer, but not 100% in 1 year.
Recent media on this points to some pretty negative sentiment around this move - do you think this is more likely to be a “behind the scenes” movement instead of a “front and center” one?
I think there will still be celebrity models and tabloids/paparazzi that follow them around -- but that's the high end. Anybody stuck in the middle is at risk. Public outrage doesn't last forever and is easily managed by PR firms.
I’d love your opinions on this - from what I’ve seen, all companies doing this today are using similar methods (and many are reliant on third party AI APIs, like Dall-E, or are using licensed nets and have nearly zero control of further development).
Lots of issues with the existing implementation (feature misalignment, feature loss, feature hallucination, warping/distortion, very odd looking faces, unrealistic bodies, and much more), but there are an awful lot of attempts at selling this current iteration even though the output is off-putting right now.
If you have real life examples to the contrary, I’d love to see them — but the real question here is will we see this tech replace a large percentage of fashion photographers for large brands any time in the coming year? Or will it take longer?