This is excellent advice for photographers at any stage of their artistic journey. It is very difficult to find the right balance between hitting your viewer over the head with an image concept versus the image saying nothing at all. Having said that, the fake blood could still be effective, depending on what you want to say, this is key, make sure you have something to say. Work on your artist statement, perhaps even running the statement through ChatGPT to help clarify your artistic intentions. In the film industry they use corn syrup and food colouring, just make sure the food colouring doesn’t stain, it would be wise to test it first.

AI is just another tool, it can be misused. AI can also open up new avenues for creativity. People/artists need to be honest, if you use AI, state it, better yet lean into it, make it part of the concept, part of your artist statement!

The problem is fraud, not AI. It’s the same as trying to pass off someone else’s work as your own, fraud!

Conceptual pictorial photography that is well outside the photography status quo. The goal being, to be displayed in art galleries.