This is the episode I’ve been avoiding.
Not because I don’t have an opinion about AI — but because I have too many feelings about it. Gratitude. Fear. Anger. Wonder. All tangled together.
AI has become my external brain — a tool that helps me function, organize, even parent. And at the same time, it’s the thing that might end my career.
In this episode, I talk honestly about what Adobe’s new AI tools mean for photographers, artists, and the humans behind the craft. About the moment when “photo editing” turns into “people editing.” And about what we lose when images no longer require someone to be there — to see, to choose, to feel.
Because when everything becomes generated, the rarest thing left might just be the real.
This isn’t a tech breakdown. It’s a gut check.
In This Episode:
Featured Voices:
A few members of The Terrible Community share how AI makes them feel — not what they think about it.
“AI is lazy… it’s not intelligent, it’s just reflecting us — all our bias, all our noise — and pretending it’s something new.”Light Leak:
Go make something where the practice is the point.
Shoot something you’ll never post.
Feel the weight of the camera in your hand — that’s what real still feels like.
Because that’s the thing they can’t generate.
That’s the thing they can’t take from you.
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Credits:
Written & Narrated by: Patrick Fore
Produced by: The Terrible Photographer
Community Voicemails: Members of The Terrible List
Music & Sound Design: Blue Dot Sessions
Robots by Flight of the Concords (1-minute)
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