Article proposal

Hello again and after last week’s blog post outlining the structure of Urgent Temporality, this week’s post will be a semi-return to regularly scheduled content as before. This post will contain a proposed article/paper idea that my research has led me to but has not, as of yet, been fully explored or researched. It intends to be an aide-mémoire for future research topics and directions.

Now the incredible recent explosion of A.I. research, thought, scholarly articles and furore has quietened down a little. I would like to ask:

“What happens to everyday recording photography when/if the use of A.I photographic generated imagery become wide scale?”

Photography is constantly used as evidence, although it is widely acknowledged that the camera always lies, it is still used as provision of evidence.

For example, currently when a delivery is made there is usually photographic proof obtained, similar when someone completes a repair in the public domain. This image is then used as evidence of the completion of the task or delivery.

What happens when A.I imagery is in widespread usage and can be accessed to generate these type of images? Will this trust in the photograph as evidence erode to the point of destruction? Could an unscrupulous receiver say that the delivery hasn’t been completed as the image is A.I generated?

At this point what could be the next steps? A move to video? Could a further evidence layer inserted into the image? How will people feel about photography then?

This proposed article/paper will research these possibilities and further examine this hypothesis.

2 images signifying proof of delivery. One is taken out of context and one is artificially generated.

Thank you for reading.