AI Photograph Exhibition stolen

Elon Musk is right to warn that A.I. is an existential threat. A real photo of a bird wins an AI photography competition. AI video generators let anyone make a realistic fake video. Audio can be made up, created as video and dubbed in different languages. As an artist who has used AI, I am backing the warnings from Elon Musk and others that A.I. is an existential threat. It is unclear if my exhibition of AI photographs was stolen because of a concern that AI technology is a threat to Photography. If so, i agree. Whoever took them missed the point of the show - which uses real photography, not "promptography" . These portraits are photographic stills from a moving sequence. Concern for photography is justified, especially fake images posing as photojournalism. Every photo has been stolen and used as training for the ultimate pastiche and creative tool. But the issue we face is much bigger. Photography, video, film, music, audio - in fact every electronic medium we rely on - can no longer be trusted. This has happened in a matter of months, after years of accelerating development of AI. AI is a disaster for Trust in human communication. It may be too late for regulation - the horses are bolting and running away. But there must be hope that people may look to real events, real relationships and conversations in the real world to believe what they see.