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What Does Generative AI Mean for Bird and Nature Photography?

To create the side-by-side images that accompany contributor Allen Murabayashi’s essay below, we asked the six photographers who won the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards to describe their photos in a few sentences to someone who couldn’t see the image. With their permission, we fed their descriptions into a popular AI image generator. The results, shown alongside the originals, are based on this single prompt. — The Editors

In 2012, footage of an endangered marooned Bengal tiger in a lifeboat captivated filmgoers. Ang Lee’s Life of Pi adaptation was clearly fiction, but many viewers didn’t realize that the majority of tiger

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This Camera Is Taking a 1,000-Year-Long Exposure Photo of Tucson’s Desert Landscape | SmartNews

Millennium Camera

The Millennium Camera, set on the path of a hiking trail in Tucson Arizona, is capturing an image over the course of 1,000 years.
The University of Arizona

While most cameras snap photos in a matter of milliseconds, Jonathon Keats, an experimental philosopher at the University of Arizona, is slowing things down: He has set up a camera to capture a single image of a desert landscape in Tucson over the span of 1,000 years. The image will be ready in 3023.

The recently installed “Millennium Camera” is located on the path of a hiking trail facing Tumamoc Hill, according

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