AI as a Fujifilm Recipe Image Generator

I’ve noticed something lately, and maybe you’ve noticed it, too. There are some Fujifilm recipe creators using AI to create the sample “photos” that illustrate what their recipes will look like. Instead of using their cameras to create actual pictures with the recipes that they supposedly made, they have AI do it for them. Whether you love or hate AI, I think we can all agree that not using real photographs to illustrate what a recipe will produce is just wrong. It’s dishonest and deceptive at the very least. To illustrate the problem, I had AI create the “picture” at the top-left using nothing more than the Fujifilm Recipe parameters—in this case, Retro Slide—plus a brief explanation of what the subject should be. The photo at the top-right is an actual image created using the Recipe on my Fujifilm X-E5 camera. You can clearly see that the AI image is not a good representation of what the Retro Slide Recipe will produce. I did this a bunch of times with various Recipes, and not once…