Hello, you’re here because you said AI image editing was just like Photoshop

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Photo collage of someone adding a shark fin to a crowded beach scene with AI tools.
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“We’ve had Photoshop for 35 years” is a common response to rebut concerns about generative AI, and you’ve landed here because you’ve made that argument in a comment thread or social media.

There are countless reasons to be concerned about how AI image editing and generation tools will impact the trust we place in photographs and how that trust (or lack thereof) could be used to manipulate us. That’s bad, and we know it’s already happening. So, to save us all time and energy, and from wearing our fingers down to nubs by constantly responding to the same handful of arguments, we’re just putting them all in a list in this post.

Sharing this will be far more efficient after all — just like AI! Isn’t that delightful!

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