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"The Ontology of the Photographic Image" and "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" allow us to distinguish these two forms.
Furthermore, to use a camera effectively requires far more than the slop generator.
However, to give a through line to comrades who do not wish to lose themselves in two great essays: The thing that photography and mechanical reproduction have is a connection to a history -- to a material process of production that eventually returns us to the real world -- even if digital capture of an image involves a translation of that moment of reality into data.
The Gen AI slop machines, however, do not retain a real trace to our world in the way a camera can -- instead, they actively efface that trace back to reality (hence the lack of citation, credit, etc).