Instagram is full of undisclosed AI generated images passed off as photography, here's one example I saw recently. Also, apart from my comments on the image above, the car appears to have 3 oddly placed doors, on one the break of the door, the crack extends up onto the roof! The general size of the child who looks about 5 years old in comparison to the size of the door window is all wrong too, he almost fills the entire window space! And look where the fuel cap is, if anyone stuck a fuel nozzle into that it would hit the giant kid! If you zoom in on any detail its just a mushy mess, the kids fingers are jammed down in between glass and whatever... he would be screaming in pain! On some images I've seen toes were fingers should be and vice versa!
One could argue anyone who uses Lightroom or Photoshop is using AI... a poor comparison really, since the beginning of photography images have been manipulated in the darkroom and now the lightroom but its mostly acceptable adjustments like exposure in certain areas (dodging and burning) contrast etc, nothing to this gross extent. In fact printing from negatives, or editing digital images is a skill in itself. Typing in instructions to an AI tool takes zero skill, and is a perversion of photography.
With giant water hungry data centres, AI is not only helping to destroy the environment, the climate its also destroying people's perception and understanding of what photography actually is. You cant see all the comments on the image here but just look at how many people (including "photographers") that think this is an actual photograph, 62 reshares and counting! The mind boggles.
