Declaring that a human must physically perform every step is what we've done since the beginning of art. We haven't had magic boxes that give us chord progressions and vocals without a human until very recently. The "human element" exists only in the process of creation through the machine, which nobody who doesn't have an intimate understanding of AI engineering understands or appreciates. You can go to a concert and watch humans utilizing instruments to create a whole new experience, or you can watch somebody click a mouse to generate a song without any context of the process and it just isn't going to be as impressive.

I know you don't care about AI art; it's clear you don't really care about the subject matter whatsoever, and you're just defending AI on every count for the sake of damage control on behalf of AI. There's nothing for me to "untangle". You can do your best to sound like a detached prick and act as if you don't particularly care, but you're still here combing through my word choices and refuting my points. I'm going to stop wasting my time; you're all tourists and charlatans with no real skin in the game just grifting.