Photography is built on patience, vision, and skill. It takes years to understand light, composition, timing, and emotion. It demands failure, practice, and personal growth. What many now call “art” created by AI requires none of these. It is a shortcut, a simulation of creativity that bypasses the struggle that gives real art its value. Typing a few sentences into a machine and waiting for output is not authorship; it is delegation. This isn’t innovation, it’s appropriation reframed as talent. […]
