Category: Backstabber’s Guild Of Australia
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Your Guarantee Of Purity And Goodness
If you are frightened that you won’t be able to tell whether the image of a presidential candidate biting the head off a kitten is real or generated by AI – we have good news for you. All kitten-eating photos will be accompanied by a special symbol that assures you that they have been made…
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Copyrighting AI
Everyone says it can’t be done. But what would the Supreme Court know? They are just footling when they say that a written description is not a work of art or a creative endeavour. Have you ever watched sophomores in Creative English 101 as they struggle with the essential angst of the human condition on…
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It’s Always A Thrill
When I stick my tongue in a light socket. Just a little under this is in the joy stakes is the discovery that someone is using one of my images that they got 20 years ago to front their current social media. I wonder if I am an artist or an accomplice. Is there dirty…
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The Promises Of Artistic Employment
Have been seducing people ever since the first cave dweller said they were thinking of adding some new bison to the walls… I have heard them from many lips. They have been fulsome, enticing, and mesmerising. In my early years I believed them, bought equipment, and held myself ready to answer the artistic call at…
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Advantage
You either have it or take it. And both attitudes show that you are not The Nice Person, nor do you work for The Nice Studio. You may smile, but it is only to give your teeth more biting room. Every so often some circumstance means that you’ll get a chance to surge ahead of…
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Limited Edition
I have decided to swap the positions of the two worst phrases in the English language. ” Singer-Songwriter ” goes to No.2 and ” Limited Edition ” takes the No. 1 spot. The first will make me flee a pub but the second will make me run from a camera store. Both awful experiences. A…
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The Rise Of AB
AB? What now? AB – Artificial Belligerence. The tendency for anyone in the artistic or creative world to start a fight as soon as Artificial Intelligence is mentioned. The fights started can be classified: a. Plain fight. Someone mentions the two trigger letters and a photographer, illustrator, writer, or advertising executive arcs up with the…
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” A Deliciously Wonderful Self-Promoter “
I have just reeled delirious from the screen. This has just been placed on a Facebook story about an Australian photographer being awarded in our national day honours. Apparently the chap is successful…and the best gauge of this is the snippy little comment… Are we, as photographers, prone to this sort of thing; the comments, not…
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” You Can’t Take My Picture! “
Okay. Just as you say. I’ll just pop off to my computer, swing the AI app into place, and write up an image of you. How many fingers do you want up your nose? The precious celebrity, entitled social icon, or would-be tyrant is free to refuse photography. They can put their hand in front of…
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Remember To Sue
But not a boy named sue, if you don’t want Johnny Cash’s lawyers on your tail… It is time to get out all your old photographs and start searching the internet to see if any of them are being shown. If they are, look carefully to see if there is any money involved – and…
Dr. Stein's Photographic Establishment 