I feel like any time technology has advanced, we've had discussions like this. Back when Tron was originally released, it was excluded from an academy award nom

I feel like any time technology has advanced, we've had discussions like this. Back when Tron was originally released, it was excluded from an academy award nomination for visual effects because they felt that using computers was cheating. While every iteration of tech makes it easier to accomplish an end result, that doesn't necessarily mean the end result will be better. What defines an artist is what they're able to create with the tools they have. Art created by an AI is really just art created by someone who wrote that AI. Who tuned it, taught it, and fed it information that steered the end result into something amazing. It doesn't make it any less of a work of art in my eyes.