The daguerreotype wasn't great news for portrait painters. It didn't kill painting, it just changed it. It also opened up a new field of the professional phot

The daguerreotype wasn't great news for portrait painters. It didn't kill painting, it just changed it. It also opened up a new field of the professional photographer. I can't stress this enough this is exactly what's going on. AI is a tool for simple boring repetitive tedium that takes too long. Abstract art came because after photography, painting the exact same painting of yet another rich person didn't pay the bills anymore. And frankly, thank goodness for that. Work in the future is not going to look like it does now. It's going to mutate. Ok, that's fine, it always does.