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Photography and painting are two entirely distinct art forms.

At the time people didn’t understand that — they thought photography would kill painting. Then for a long time photography wasn’t considered an art form. Your comment reflects an understanding/ viewpoint that is much less than a century old.

We are currently at the point equivalent to when photography was just appearing (so to speak)

I find it entirely irrelevant that contemporary comments on emerging technology of photography may have in part worried about the future of representative arts. 19th century featured a lot of blowhard know nothing know it alls.

As for today, we are discussing distinct means of producing the same thing: software. Painting remains because photography was at most displacing a subset of the field. Generative AI writing software may be displacing an entire profession.

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