Carl St. James
1 min readJan 15, 2024

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Is it though?

The image with the surfer girl looks like she has no legs, and I don't mean that in an inclusive kind of way, I mean it in a I forgot to practice with the clone tool way. (I'm not trying to put down the idea of amputees in photo campaigns, just that it looks like someone erased them in Photoshop)

In the surfer image and the biker one the textures on the wet sand and the mountain rocks do not look realistic at all, more like textured surfaces from a PlayStation 4 game. The left foot is all wrong and doesn't line up with the leg, leading to a superimposition-look.

What the AI can do is still pretty incredible but if they landed on my desk I'd send them right back.

As we have seen with the backlash against other publications: readers and viewers value authenticity above all else. I would therefore implore writers to go out and take their own photographs instead of offloading the task to an AI or nicking somebody elses.

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Carl St. James
Carl St. James

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