“From Today, Painting is Dead” — What the Invention of Photography Tells Us About AI
A surprisingly optimistic tale!
The French painter Paul Delaroche — famous for his paintings of historical figures like Queen Elizabeth I — saw one of the first daguerreotypes at an 1840 exhibition and immediately proclaimed, “From today, painting is dead!”
Delaroche was wrong, but I can understand why he felt this way.
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