Many photographers found it easy to scoff at generative AI when it was being produced by programs with names like DALLE and Midjourney. But now, Photoshop — the household name in photo editing that even non-photographers use as a verb — has not only joined the game, but has already had a hand in more than 900 million AI-generated images. The latest edition of Photoshop AI tools to arrive on the beta version of Photoshop is Generative Expand, a tool that aims to ease photographer’s aspect ratio woes by filling in the edges to expand an image. But, the more I look into Photoshop’s new generative AI, the more I realize that Adobe is at least considering the ethical ramifications of such technology.
