In other words, we currently witness widely felt concerns about the negative sides of AI at the same time as we’re seeing a tremendous progress being made in implementing real-world AI-imaging solutions (including some that tackle deepfakes and biases) – disillusionment and productivity are occurring in parallel rather than sequentially.
I’ve come to this conclusion by analyzing the offerings of our
Visual 1st presenters in the last 2 years and identifying those who offer products or services that have incorporated AI-based features. For some of these features AI is the core (for instance, AI-based auto-curation of images); for others it is more tangential (such as for AI-based AR effects among many other of an app's editing features).
I’ve classified the AI-featuring solutions along the lines of the traditional imaging workflow:
Capture: Hardware
Including standalone cameras, smartphones, depth measurement sensors, flashes, drones, action cams, 360 cameras
Capture: Software, service
Including camera apps, scanning apps, volume photo shoot services, gig photography services, scanning/digitizing services
Enhance: Alter, Edit, Compress
Including photo editing apps, collage or montage apps, mashup apps, music video apps, photo/video compression software
Manage: Store, Analyze, Curate
Including device or cloud storage solutions, image recognition apps, image rights management solutions, asset management and workflow solutions
Share: View, Send, Sell
Including digital frames, portfolio services, photo-based marketplaces, stock photo services, sharing, AR apps
Print: B2C
Including photo print product apps or web services, kiosks, consumer photo printers
Print: B2B, B2B2C
Including photo print service providers, photo print middleware technology, B2B kiosk providers, photo printer companies
AI-using Visual 1st Presenters in the last 2 years: