I can't quite put my finger on the best response to all that, other than to say "get a shovel, there's a lot of bullshit piled up here". "Real artists", oh, no

I can't quite put my finger on the best response to all that, other than to say "get a shovel, there's a lot of bullshit piled up here". "Real artists", oh, now THERE'S a shining bit of arrogance. Likewise the notion that the artist is somehow creating a distillation the audience themselves wouldn't be able to otherwise find revelatory and enjoyable from any number of other random AI influences. Because they quite probably would, and this no doubt presents a terrifying possibility to the merchants of your art "culture". But works of true value maintain currency over time. This, however, doesn't make everything else created in-between worthless. It's just different. AI art is likewise.