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> But in case of a lot of landscape photography, the content is intrinsic to the picture itself—the photo does not get its value from anything external to it. L
by e12e 9y ago
> But in case of a lot of landscape photography, the content is intrinsic to the picture itself—the photo does not get its value from anything external to it. Likewise for portraits.
Any photo is a tiny square cut out of an infinite number of 360 degree spheres taken at a single point in time. For every photograph there will always be much more outside of the frame than in it.
That doesn't even begin to touch on things like lighting for portraits - but to think that even a landscape photo is anything but subjective expression is naive at best, dangerously so at worst.
- tormeh 9y agoThe algorithm does do cropping from panoramas, though.
- e12e 9y agoI'm not arguing that machine learning can't take great photographs, just that there are great photographs (and so, also many not-so-great photographs). I suppose one could get into deep philosophical discussions about if a machine intelligence can make art, if it does so, does it have to be regarded as a higher level of intelligence, or does the art have to be regarded as inferior art, etc. Interesting stuff, but not my point at this time.