terryMc wrote:
I know it's nitpicky, but a photograph is also an image.
I think what you meant was using AI to change a photograph turns a photo into an illustration. That is what I consider AI art to be, illustrations. Computer-Generated Illustrations/Imagery, or CGI.
Illustrations can also be hand drawn or painted, or made on a computer using digital tools, but while some can be called "photorealistic," all are images, all are illustrations, but none are photography.
There was already a longstanding word that applies to images made of actual photographs combined with AI generated elements - Mixed Media.