Photojournalism Faces a Different Threat Entirely

The risk here isn’t job replacement. It’s the collapse of trust in the photograph itself. Photojournalism has a unique relationship with AI compared to almost every other photography category. The job of documenting real, breaking, unscripted events can’t be replaced by generation for the same reason weddings can’t — you can’t generate an image of something that’s actually happening right now, somewhere specific, that the world needs to see truthfully. But photojournalism faces a different and arguably more