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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Tom May

The rise of AI influencers is freaking me out – but there's a bright side for real photographers

Two AI generated images of pretty young female model.

I've been working in the media for decades, often on women's magazines, and I thought I'd seen it all. Models who demand their coffee at exactly 154.4°F / 68°C. That celebrity who vetoed the perfect cover shot because their left eyebrow looked "too assertive". Influencers who insisted on two outfit changes for a single Instagram Story.

But nothing – and I mean nothing – prepared me for Mia Zelu.

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