Ask HN: Will fashion photographers lose their jobs to AI this year?

3 points by ricberw 3y ago ↗ HN

A bunch of players in this space now, some of them YC companies.

I’d love your opinions on this - from what I’ve seen, all companies doing this today are using similar methods (and many are reliant on third party AI APIs, like Dall-E, or are using licensed nets and have nearly zero control of further development).

Lots of issues with the existing implementation (feature misalignment, feature loss, feature hallucination, warping/distortion, very odd looking faces, unrealistic bodies, and much more), but there are an awful lot of attempts at selling this current iteration even though the output is off-putting right now.

If you have real life examples to the contrary, I’d love to see them — but the real question here is will we see this tech replace a large percentage of fashion photographers for large brands any time in the coming year? Or will it take longer?

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rainytuesday 3y ago ↗

Levi's is already using AI models. AI will do some of the work that would have gone to a fashion photographer, but not 100% in 1 year.

ricberw 3y ago ↗

Recent media on this points to some pretty negative sentiment around this move - do you think this is more likely to be a “behind the scenes” movement instead of a “front and center” one?

I think there will still be celebrity models and tabloids/paparazzi that follow them around -- but that's the high end. Anybody stuck in the middle is at risk. Public outrage doesn't last forever and is easily managed by PR firms.