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Fortune
Steve Mollman

‘Promptography’: Artist who rejected photography prize for his A.I.-generated image backs new term

(Credit: getty)

For decades after its invention in the early 19th century, photography was not considered art. By the late 1850s, French art critic Charles Baudelaire was calling the photographic industry “art’s most mor­tal enemy.”

Today we face a similar issue: Can A.I.-generated images be considered photography? And do they threaten photographers and other artists? 

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