It is easy to feel despair at the state of affairs in all realms of creativity affected by the existence of generative models, LLMs, and other AI that dumps slop at the click of a button. I know I feel this way. Is it possible to fight back?
This weekend while organizing I pulled out my whole stack of developed film that I keep in a cabinet. I remembered there was a film frame that I wished had been better scanned at the lab, so I pulled it out, with the intend of just doing a regular scan using my Nikon Z6 III. I did that, and the result was, fine…