Combining A.I. and photography

Much has been written lately about artificial intelligence, specifically generative fill in Photoshop, and creating photographic art. Some in support of artificial intelligence and generative fill and others against. My thoughts are I am in support of artificial intelligence and photography. I work to create the images I want when I want. Let’s talk about the “featured image” (above). I took the image at roughly 6:30 PM on a Saturday night. The street was busy with cars and the sidewalk was packed with people, as see below.

This is reality, but for me there are many distractions. Sure, I could have waited until much later or got up very early and had a better chance to get the shot with no cars or people, but I could also have used generative fill and artificial intelligence to remove those distractions to create the shot I wanted. Additionally, had I waited the wet pavement may have dried and not allow the reflections I wanted. The generative fill and artificial intelligence will, most likely, continue to improve making its use better but for now I believe it is quite usable.