Muller: Photography Is Safe from AI Because Image Generation Requires Base Photos
Michael Muller · How Michael Muller Built a Career Doing What He Loves · Oct 21, 2025 · at 17:53
Commercial photographer Michael Muller discusses whether creative professions are threatened by generative AI models.
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“Fortunately, photography's not something that you're at risk, and here's, here's the why. To do AI and to make the cat swimming on the lake with Brad Pitt, you need those photos. You need a photo of a cat. You need a photo of the lake. You need a photo of Brad Pitt. You need photos to make the photos.”
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