I motorboated your fucking mom across the ocean.
Best way to travel, tbh.
No, “AI” can’t “take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional”. It can maybe make it look less shit, to an untrained eye.
Getting decent shots taken by someone who knows what they’re doing (regardless of gear, even) is absolutely not the same thing. And that’s before you get to all the environmental and ethics issues around it, so it certainly isn’t “free”.
I mean, you do you, and if auto-tweaked snapshots serve your purpose, more power to you. But don’t think for a second that you’ve made a photographer superfluous. You weren’t her (or any photographer’s) target group to begin with.
A not too long one, for portraits, say 86 to 135mm, and a fast one at that? Absolutely.
Yet another health benefit of working from home: fucking Cindy and her fucking AR-15.