I completely agree. I think to some degree its all a lie. I think about it the same way I think about magic. It’s all about the frame we choose to put around the information we’re presenting. What we leave out is just as important, especially in a social media world where performance is everything. I do wonder if our discomfort with AI (and forgers in this context) comes from something we just feel. That eerie, gut instinct reaction when something isn’t quite real. I’ve been trying to read and grasp Walter Benjamin and his writing on reproduction. When something can be endlessly copied, does it lose something… some sort of indescribable essence? And if it does… what does it mean when AI uses those copies to create something?

This one is really good. I think it all falls back to the belief that while photography was created to capture “reality”, instead every photo is fundamentally a lie.