[pmoriarty]

That was from back when film was expensive, and it was impractical to take thousands of pictures, as you can now. For decades now it's common for photographers to shoot countless photos and sort through them later to pick the best ones, rather than aiming for one perfect shot.

Also consider movies and video, where you could have hours or days of footage from which to choose stills.

The act of choosing in all these cases is critical to creativity, and the same is true when you choose what to prompt an AI with or which AI generated image to display or publish.

Duchamp really did have the last word on this with his Fountain[1] over 100 years ago.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)