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If you know what goes into the making of good photos, or good art, you can make out the difference in ability.

If you use GenAI to simply remove effort, then it’s a savings of efficiency, not an expression of ability.

If they used GenAI to create pictures that couldn’t be taken, or to create compositions, novel tableaus or effects - then that is artistic.

I suppose post-modernism may not give a hoot.