Shutterstock AI - photographers are giving up cameras for computers.

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

Amazing stuff they are doing nowadays with AI. If you use stock photos, you have to check to see the origin of the photo. I gather they got stock video as well, but have not looked into it.

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Edited June 23, 2025 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

[Mark Dunn]

The hands are still creepy, and the woman eating? Yeesh.

Edited June 24, 2025 by Mark Dunn

[Jon O'Brien]

In the total-digital world many photographers and videographers now work in, yes there does seem to be a thing where many creative types are increasingly putting the camera down and just sitting at a computer. I call it the screen sitter movement. Creativity in front of a computer screen instead of with a viewfinder to the eye. I see it in the so called 'screen industry' -- which increasingly is inhabited by variations on the theme of gamer and graphics designer. It's one reason why I see that there's a move back to film by people who want to be actual photographers and cinematographers. They want to be roving around with a real camera in a real world capturing images of real things. Only film is 100% that.

[Jon O'Brien]

I saw on FB a guy who filmed a Coke ad on Super 8 a few years back. What a great ad. Man, now that's some imagery that would make me sit up and take notice if I saw that play on the TV or online, or in the cinema. Absolutely no AI.

The best thing, the newer generations dig it. Film is getting noticed.

Edited June 24, 2025 by Jon O'Brien