{"id":4145,"date":"2025-05-06T00:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2025-05-06T01:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T01:08:34","slug":"ai-vs-real-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/ai-vs-real-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Vs Real Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Recently, I exchanged a few comments about AI-generated images\u2014after I tried (and failed) to recreate one myself. The attempt ended in disaster thanks to a gold-glitter malfunction<\/em>. Think \u201cwardrobe malfunction,\u201d but artier\u2014and messier. I was aiming for elegance, but instead ended up with something between a sparkly accident and a cautionary tale. Let\u2019s just say, AI made it look effortless. I did not.<\/p>

I\u2019m not against AI. Actually, I find it fascinating. Some of the images it produces are stunning: full of atmosphere, character, sometimes even emotion. It\u2019s also a great creative trigger. There are moments when it suggests an idea I hadn\u2019t thought of, and that\u2019s incredibly valuable. I\u2019m all for tools that expand how we see and think.<\/p>

But in my experience, nothing compares to the real thing. AI doesn\u2019t prepare a shoot with you. It doesn\u2019t sit at dinner the night before with your model, building a subtle trust. It doesn\u2019t carry tripods through the jungle, or sweat under the sun while you chase a sliver of perfect light. And it definitely doesn\u2019t lean in, smell the model\u2019s skin, and wait for that moment\u2014that look<\/em>\u2014that says more than anything posed ever could.<\/p>

And then there\u2019s the chaos. AI will never wake you up at 4 a.m. because one of the models tried to smuggle in two prostitutes from a disco (true story). While David and I scrambled to explain to a very drunk, very stubborn model why we couldn\u2019t risk everyone\u2019s safety\u2014eight people were sleeping in that 1000-square-meter penthouse\u2014AI was safe and sound in the cloud, generating perfect lighting with zero drama.<\/p>

Or take that time in a finca in the hills of Medell\u00edn, where I got eaten alive by mosquitoes. I ended up on steroids, antihistamines, and more hydrocortisone than should be legally prescribed. You know what AI doesn\u2019t get? Rashes. Or altitude sickness. Or bitten ankles.<\/p>

But it also doesn\u2019t get trust, laughter, tension, or that beautiful awkwardness when two people\u2014photographer and model\u2014are trying to figure out how far they can go together, artistically, emotionally, vulnerably. It can\u2019t recreate what happens when a model opens up and suddenly you\u2019re not just shooting a picture\u2014you\u2019re telling a story, and you both feel it.<\/p>

That human connection, with all its beauty, messiness, and unpredictability, is<\/em> the work. And no algorithm, no matter how advanced, can replicate that.

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AI vs. Mosquito Massacre Recently, I exchanged a few comments about AI-generated images\u2014after I tried (and failed) to recreate one myself. The attempt ended in disaster thanks to a gold-glitter malfunction. Think \u201cwardrobe malfunction,\u201d but artier\u2014and messier. I was aiming for elegance, but instead ended up with something between a sparkly accident and a cautionary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"zakra_general_container_width":0,"zakra_general_content_width":0,"zakra_general_sidebar_width":0,"zakra_sticky_header":"customizer","zakra_header_main_area":true,"zakra_site_logo_width":0,"zakra_header_top_enabled":"customizer","zakra_header_top_style":"customizer","zakra_primary_menu_item_style":"customizer","zakra_page_header_text_color":"","zakra_page_header_layout":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg":"","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_image":0,"zakra_page_title_bg_repeat":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_position":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_size":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_attachment":"customizer","zakra_breadcrumbs_enabled":"customizer","zakra_breadcrumbs_text_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_link_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_link_hover_color":"","zakra_page_title_bg_image":0,"zakra_footer_widgets_enabled":"customizer","zakra_footer_column_layout_1_style":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg":"","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_repeat":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_position":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_size":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_attachment":"customizer","zakra_footer_bar_enabled":"customizer","zakra_footer_bar_style":"customizer","zakra_page_container_layout":"customizer","zakra_page_sidebar_layout":"customizer","zakra_remove_content_margin":false,"zakra_sidebar":"customizer","zakra_transparent_header":"customizer","zakra_logo":0,"zakra_main_header_style":"default","zakra_menu_item_color":"","zakra_menu_item_hover_color":"","zakra_menu_item_active_color":"","zakra_menu_active_style":"","zakra_page_header":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronicles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igormattio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}