A conversation between photographer Gil Anselmi and Studio Halia’s Melisa Yalcinkaya tracing the creative, ethical, and aesthetic stakes of working with AI. Anselmi reflects on using AI not as shortcut but as medium—training models on his own work to retain authorship and blur the lines between tool and technique. The interview moves between critique and curiosity: raising questions around beauty standards, authorship, and the homogenising pull of AI-generated aesthetics. Anselmi approaches AI as both collaborator and constraint—highlighting the labour behind prompts, the ecological impact of image generation, and the ongoing tension between intuition and automation.
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I see working with AI as being in conversation with the software.
Beauty, Authorship, and AI: A Conversation with Gil Anselmi