Artificial Intelligence

The Hidden Cost Of AI-Generated Content In Photoshop And Digital Art
Industry Perspective

The Hidden Cost Of AI-Generated Content In Photoshop And Digital Art

I’ve been using Photoshop for almost two decades. I teach it. I write about it on this blog every week. And I want to be honest with you about something that’s been bothering me for a while, because I don’t think enough people in our craft are saying it out loud. The AI tools that shipped in Photoshop over the last two years are genuinely useful. Generative fill, generative expand, neural filters, Sky Replacement, content-aware masking.

The Real Cost of Generative Fill: Why Your Photoshop Shortcuts Are Someone Else's Stolen Work
Digital Ethics

The Real Cost of Generative Fill: Why Your Photoshop Shortcuts Are Someone Else's Stolen Work

I love Generative Fill. There, I said it. When Adobe dropped it into Photoshop a couple years back, I immediately used it to remove a coffee cup from a client shot, fix some awkward shadows, and extend a landscape that was framed just slightly wrong. It took seconds. It worked beautifully. It made me more efficient, and my client was thrilled. But here’s the thing that’s been nagging at me ever since: I have no idea whose work trained that tool to do those things.