AI's impact on creative traditions lamented

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-07-11 12:58

The author reminisces about a past workplace tradition called "Photoshop Phriday," where colleagues would creatively edit photos of coworkers into humorous or topical scenarios. They express concern that if such an activity were to occur today, it would likely be dominated by generic generative AI outputs, diminishing the fun and creativity of the original practice. AI

IMPACT Generative AI may be diminishing the creativity and fun of collaborative photo editing traditions.

RANK_REASON The item is a personal opinion piece about the perceived decline in creativity due to generative AI, not a factual report on AI development or deployment.

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AI's impact on creative traditions lamented

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A long while back we used to have Photoshop Phriday at work, where someone would post a pic, sometimes of a coworker at a corp event, and we'd photoshop them in

A long while back we used to have Photoshop Phriday at work, where someone would post a pic, sometimes of a coworker at a corp event, and we'd photoshop them into something else that they were doing (often memes or current events). Some really fun stuff came out of that. I'm afra…

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A long while back we used to have Photoshop Phriday at work, where someone would post a pic, sometimes of a coworker at a corp event, and we'd photoshop them in

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