The "photograph" is already, in a technical sense, a construction. This is where deepfakes and generative Al become philosophically significant - not because they introduce lying into a previously honest medium, but because they expose the lie that was always there. If a manipulated image is indistinguishable from an unmanipulated one, it reveals that our trust in photographs was never really based on their intrinsic properties. It was based on social convention and the practical difficulty of
..I actually love this article. It brings up some really good points about cameras and images. Go figure.
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