Walking into your local fast food restaurant, you peer at the colorful menu options, brightly lit above the cashiers¡¯ muted faces. The burgers, each a sculpted Technicolor masterpiece, are oddly perfect in appearance ¡ª a lie made evident by what is shortly passed to you on a plastic tray.
But you weren¡¯t duped by the menu imagery. No, you knew what you were in for. You knew the dream sold to you of the burger was ¡°for illustration purposes only.¡±
In this latest wave of digital development, the art of photography is now met by a new challenger: Images generated by artificial intelligence.
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