Baudelaire called photography a refuge for failed painters — history's first slop complainer
max_paperclips · x · 2026-11-16
An AI-culture quip: Baudelaire once dismissed photography as "the refuge of failed painters," making him arguably the first person in history to complain about "slop." The post draws a parallel between 19th-century art-world resistance to photography and today's backlash against AI-generated content.
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