A photo of Trump being violently arrested provokes a reaction because we assume it captures a real scene. A painting or a political cartoon showing the same sce

A photo of Trump being violently arrested provokes a reaction because we assume it captures a real scene. A painting or a political cartoon showing the same scene would not, even if it were quite realistically painted. Before the camera was invented, paintings and engravings like that were the best anyone could do to transmit a scene, and now that AI can generate fake photorealistic images, photos will gradually have to be seen the same as a skilled painting. It might capture reality, or it might not.