As generative AI technology proliferates, making it easier for people to manipulate real photos or create convincing fake ones from scratch, photography’s ability to depict reality has come under increasing attack. We are now living in the era of historical surrealism.”There is no denying that generative AI and associated technologies have made photo manipulation easier and more accessible than ever. Generative AI is not. In other words, generative AI is never there, never present in our flesh-and-blood world. There has never before been a more potent antidote against collective deception than the tangible, visual evidence a camera provides.