AI product photography, compared honestly

For most products, yes — the requirements are a clean background, correct colour, adequate resolution and an accurate representation of the product, and an AI app that removes and replaces the background satisfies all four. Where it is not enough is where the original photo is poor.

For brand campaigns, packaging design, lifestyle shoots with models, and anything where the composition is the product. A photographer is also better for very large or very reflective items, where the set is the work.

Only if the scene misrepresents the product — its size, its contents or its quality. Changing the background, the light and the props is styling, which is what product photography has always done. Changing the product is misrepresentation.