Category: Ethics

  • The Dead Children We Must See | The New Yorker

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    The Dead Children We Must See It’s time for Americans to rethink their squeamishness about releasing the photos of the youngest victims of mass violence. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dead-children-we-must-see In a series of three essays published in 1991, the philosopher Jean Baudrillard argued that the Gulf War, which ended up with more than a…

  • Adobe Stock Changes Policy on AI Images Depciting Real Events | PetaPixel

    Adobe Stock Changes Policy on AI Images Depciting Real Events | PetaPixel

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    Adobe Stock Changes Policy on AI Images Depciting Real Events Adobe says it has listened to concerned community members. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/27/adobe-stock-changes-policy-on-ai-images-depciting-real-events/ The rise of AI imagery is of real concern to public discourse: The actress Rosie O’Donnell shared this AI image from TikTok of a Palestinian mother dragging her children and belongings down a…

  • World Press Photo contest reverses decision to allow AI-generated images after backlash | The Straits Times

    World Press Photo contest reverses decision to allow AI-generated images after backlash | The Straits Times

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    World Press Photo contest reverses decision to allow AI-generated images after backlash An open letter was signed by over 100 photojournalists and photo editors. Read more at straitstimes.com. via The Straits Times: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/world-press-photo-contest-reverses-decision-to-allow-ai-generated-images-after-backlash The WPP’s Open Format category had allowed submissions of images partially created with a photo-editing tool known as generative fill, which automatically…

  • Sony’s In-Camera Authentication Technology Passes AP’s Tests | PetaPixel

    Sony’s In-Camera Authentication Technology Passes AP’s Tests | PetaPixel

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    Sony’s In-Camera Authentication Technology Passes AP’s Tests Sony prepares its shield against AI-generated fake photos. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/21/sonys-in-camera-authentication-technology-passes-aps-tests/ Sony’s new in-camera solution creates a digital signature at the time of capture, and unlike Leica’s M11-P, Sony’s answer to the “fake news” problem does not require specialized hardware inside its cameras. Existing cameras, like the Sony…

  • Harsh Visuals of War Leave Newsrooms Facing Tough Choices – The New York Times

    Harsh Visuals of War Leave Newsrooms Facing Tough Choices – The New York Times

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    Harsh Visuals of War Leave Newsrooms Facing Tough Choices Digital disinformation and restrictions on photojournalists have complicated decision-making about the visual chronicle of the Israel-Hamas war. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/business/media/israel-hamas-media-photography.html Gruesome photographs of Palestinian children killed in rocket strikes and Israeli infants murdered by terrorists. Digitally doctored images that whip around social media before they can be…

  • How The Washington Post decided to show extremely graphic images of mass shootings – Poynter

    How The Washington Post decided to show extremely graphic images of mass shootings – Poynter

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    How The Washington Post decided to show extremely graphic images of mass shootings – Poynter ‘We just felt that there was a lack of understanding of what actually happens in these shootings,’ the Post’s executive editor told Poynter. via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/washington-post-terror-on-repeat-mass-shootings-images/ Today, The Washington Post went further than any mainstream news organization has ever gone…

  • We’re not ready for a major shift in visual journalism – Poynter

    We’re not ready for a major shift in visual journalism – Poynter

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    We’re not ready for a major shift in visual journalism – Poynter As generative AI tools explode, we desperately need conversations about how it will shape our world via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/were-not-ready-for-a-major-shift-in-visual-journalism/ I have lived through the move from paste-up to digital design, saw print reduced to almost nothing, led a photo team that was forced…

  • Genocide: Danish war photographer on the spot over Rwanda coverage – The New Times

    Genocide: Danish war photographer on the spot over Rwanda coverage – The New Times

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    Genocide: Danish war photographer on the spot over Rwanda coverage Jan Grarup, a celebrated Danish war photographer has been put on the spot allegedly for ‘magnifying’ his role in a number of events including the 1994 Genocide against the… via The New Times: https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/12015/news/rwanda/genocide-danish-war-photographer-on-the-spot-over-rwanda-coverage Politiken, the media outlet he works for released a statement about…

  • Disinformation Runs Rampant in Images Related to Israel-Gaza War

    Disinformation Runs Rampant in Images Related to Israel-Gaza War

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    Disinformation Runs Rampant in Images Related to Israel-Gaza War Posts pertaining to atrocities have gone viral before fact-checkers could identify them as old footage and even video game clips. via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/850059/disinformation-runs-rampant-in-images-related-to-israel-hamas-war/ A barrage of social media disinformation related to the escalating Israel-Palestine war has made it far more difficult to discern the credibility of…

  • Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict – bellingcat

    Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict – bellingcat

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    Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict – bellingcat Bellingcat presents a guide to separating fact from fiction with real, recent examples of misinformation. via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2023/10/26/separating-fact-from-fiction-on-social-media-in-times-of-conflict/ Here’s how to separate fact from fiction with real, recent examples of misinformation.

  • GenAI and the forced evolution of Photography: From Artifice to Authenticity – Kaptur

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    GenAI and the forced evolution of Photography: From Artifice to Authenticity – Kaptur If GenAI can recreate or even surpass the aesthetic appeal of a captured moment, what then becomes the essence of photography? via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/genai-and-the-forced-evolution-of-photography-from-artifice-to-authenticity/ As the lines between the real and the artificial blur, photography’s role in preserving and portraying reality becomes…

  • How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News | The New Yorker

    How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News | The New Yorker

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    How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News The Israel-Hamas war has displayed with fresh urgency the perils of relying on our feeds for updates about events unfolding in real time. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-social-media-abdicated-responsibility-for-the-news An “algorithmically driven fog of war” is how one journalist described the deluge of disinformation and mislabelled footage on…

  • The Problem with Helmut Newton | Conscientious Photography Magazine

    The Problem with Helmut Newton | Conscientious Photography Magazine

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    The Problem with Helmut Newton via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/the-problem-with-helmut-newton/ You could argue that what I described in the preceding paragraph is bad enough for it to disqualify the man’s photography. I would certainly agree. But Newton’s photography actually is a lot worse for additional reasons that I’m hoping to make clear in the following.

  • Photojournalist Controversially Turns to AI to Illustrate ‘Inaccessible’ Stories | PetaPixel

    Photojournalist Controversially Turns to AI to Illustrate ‘Inaccessible’ Stories | PetaPixel

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    Photojournalist Controversially Turns to AI to Illustrate ‘Inaccessible’ Stories His Instagram account has been flooded with angry comments. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/15/photojournalist-controversially-turns-to-ai-to-illustrate-inaccessible-stories/ Michael Christopher Brown used the artificial intelligence (AI) image generator Midjourney to produce a series of images that explores historical Cuban events and the realities of Cubans attempting to cross the 90 miles of…

  • How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

    How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine

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    How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism — Blind Magazine In this Op-ed, independent photography director Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/stories/how-ai-imagery-is-shaking-photojournalism/ In this Op-ed, independent photography director and educator Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks.

  • Sony World Photography Awards 2023 | boris eldagsen

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    Link: I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out, if the comeptitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not. We, the photo world, need an open discussion. A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to…

  • On ‘Exploitation’ in Photography | PetaPixel

    On ‘Exploitation’ in Photography | PetaPixel

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    On ‘Exploitation’ in Photography Street photographer Simon King offers thoughts on the concept of “exploitation” in the world of photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/04/02/on-exploitation-in-photography/ The problem of exploitation in photography is a topic I see trending particularly toward dogmatic and cyclical patterns. Exploitation in photography is broadly the photographers’ “unfair” use of depictions they include in…

  • Why Discourse on Ethical Photography Matters | PetaPixel

    Why Discourse on Ethical Photography Matters | PetaPixel

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    Why Discourse on Ethical Photography Matters Street photographer Simon King shares thoughts about why it is important to have a healthy discourse on ethical photography. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/03/18/why-discourse-on-ethical-photography-matters/ With this understanding, the common tendency to fault discussions about ethics in photography is quite odd. Why wouldn’t you want to understand the possible obligations that come…

  • Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about – Columbia Journalism Review

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    Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about In recent years, artificial intelligence engineers have used millions of real photographs—taken by journalists all over the world, and without those journalists’ permission—to train new imaging software to create synthetic photojournalism. Now anyone c via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/fred_ritchin_ai_photojournalism.php The…

  • Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics

    Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics

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    The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects. via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html Documentary-making has never been ethically pure or entirely subjective. (“I’m working on a project that is the kind of documentary where you do six takes of the person putting…