It is ironic that photographers should distain AI. Photography at first took over the role of simple representation once the preserve of painters. But they soon

It is ironic that photographers should distain AI. Photography at first took over the role of simple representation once the preserve of painters. But they soon leaned to tweak and turn their pictures into something "better", though they created for themselves limits as to how far they could decently go. Expressionism was partly a release for painters to do what they wanted when photography took on their traditional role. Now photographers are facing a new expressionism and not liking it.