It is the same for every tech advance. What used to be awesome is now mundane. The article is about questioning the reality of picture. It started way before A

It is the same for every tech advance. What used to be awesome is now mundane. The article is about questioning the reality of picture. It started way before AI, when image manipulation became possible. Many people find it difficult to appreciate the picture of a beautiful woman on the cover of a magazine, because it must be all makeup and photoshop. Even if she may be stunningly beautiful and natural in real life, what to believe once we know what photo editors can do? With or without AI, I tend to assume that all awesome pictures are edited in some way, unless some somewhat trustworthy source tells me they aren't. And even without editing, straight from the camera images, what you are seeing may be a distorted view of reality. For example, a wide angle shot of a room makes it look bigger than it is in real life, a trick well known by real estate agents. Our eyes don't have the field of view of a wide angle lens, so is such a picture "real"?