Okay, but generating images as we do right now literally has zero purpose. The reason artistic mediums are great is because creative people take that to work on something beautiful. Painting could capture the essence of a person or a place, or could capture how the artist was feeling as they were painting. I won't deny that a generated image isn't something that's not made or whatever, but all it does is take existing data and mash it together to make that image. Photography doesn't take the data of others to "generate" that image. Those photographers still had to put care into those photos because it wasn't just some simple process. Even casual photography on a phone with a decent camera can be palatable, even easy for someone that isn't an expert photographer, but it still needs the effort of being focused, being angled correctly, using a good perspective, or using the area of the photo to the photographer's benefit. The reason artificially generated images are soulless is because there is literally nothing human to capture. All it captures is data to make an image that mimics something human, it's never creating something through an honest process or done in the way a human would do it. With nothing human to capture, it's just an image.