NPR Photography

I haven't been as active on this page as I should be...beyond cross-posts from my personal account.
That lack of activity doesn't mean I haven't still been taking photos, though.
These are from the 2023 Lee Farms Sunflower Festival.
Elizabeth, Jack, and I went down to Tualatin to check it out.

I like the way Don Noble--an artist I've worked with for the cover designs of a couple of my books--has described it.
An "artist" utilizing A.I. to "create" is committing the artistic equivalent of stolen valor. They're claiming credit for something they've never earned.
I'd feel different about it if--and this is nowhere near the case at present--the A.I. was a sentient, conscious being in and of itself. But at that point, the artist would be the A.I. itself and the person supplying the prompts would have no more claim to call themselves an artist than the person patronizing the artist today.

Whatever A.I. creates, it is not art.

By definition, art is, "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination..."