Google this question and see different answers. “This industry, by invading the territory of art, has become art’s most mortal enemy.” Was this quote said in 1859 about photography by Charles Baudelaire or in 2025 about AI art by somebody else? Read “Photography was historically considered art’s most mortal enemy. Is AI?” by Lizzy Larson.

One of the answers was published yesterday by a fine art photographer, Craig Boehman, and is called “In Defense of AI Art: History Repeats Itself, Again, Again, and Again“: The “anyone can do it” and “it will put people out of work” arguments. And has painting been superseded by photography? What nonsense. Check the auction houses. Paintings go for hundreds of millions of dollars and a mere photo has yet to reach 10 million. And there are very few cases of photos being valued this high. Naturally, value isn’t the only way to judge an art form. But there is no evidence whatsoever that photography has overtaken painting.