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A three-panel image: left, a man praying in church; center, the body of a flamingo without its head, standing on sand; right, a man with a mustache and curly hair smoking in a diner, wearing a denim vest.

AI Images in 2024: Photography Strikes Back

At the end of 2023 it was beginning to look like AI images -- a new and novel way of producing pictures -- were an existential threat to photography. By the end of 2024, that threat had been extinguished somewhat.

A person stands beside a robotic arm in a lab setting. The robot says, "I want to look confident." In the next panel, a close-up of the robot shows it viewing an image of a person posing confidently, saying, "Pose like this!.

Robot Photographer Can Snap the Photo You Have in Mind

Photographers struggling to find the perfect angle for a group shot have often relied upon clumsy tripods, clunky self-timers, or, worst of all, missing out on being in the frame to take the photo themselves. Enter PhotoBot, a robot photographer who promises to capture a good shot and can take instructions and use a reference photo when finding the ideal composition.