AI Generated Visuals Don't Deserve To Be Called Photos

A photograph is something that is created by a camera. Whether that be a pinhole camera photo clumsily exposed onto film or your latest iPhone 14 Pro Max, these are still products defined to produce a photograph out of light that enters it. What's definitely not a photograph in my book is something not created using exposing light. Like a hyper-realistic painting or AI generated "photos." And technically, the latter is nothing more than a machine creating something out of existing references.