It depends on filed. As documentary photographer it motivates me even more to capture authentic images of life around me. I don't care about remixing, because that is not what makes documentary photography valuable.
And how is any future viewer going to tell your images from "AI" fakes?
With photos, I could see a cryptographic solution. Of course it would still need some kind of centralized trust, but it's doable if people cared enough. It could be applied by cameras themselves.
This is already a thing. Leica cryptographically signs images. Useful for establishing trust for photojournalists I guess. I’m not sure how deep the chain goes. Do they have hardware attention down to the sensor? You could take a picture of a screen, but that would likely have some other tell-tales. Especially if Leica took another step like putting a depth sensor in the package and added its data to the signature.
So take a photo of a screen showing an AI image.
> It could be applied by cameras themselves.
And equally faked by bots.
By trust. If you pay attention enough, you'll discover authenticity and "handwriting" well.
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Disclosure
Because the photographer builds trust, over years, by not manipulating their images using AI. All trust is erased if anyone spots the manipulation.