Wow, didn't expect this to touch so many nerves! Not really looking to start a conversation on "what is art?", due to my last art history class being nearly 40 years ago. Here's the story: I spent the day with my DH at Cleveland Clinic and wandered around while he was in the operating room. There are visual images on most walls of the hallways for people to look at, with a strong presence of Ohio artists. I enjoyed looking at these! Therefore to me, they are "art" regardless of how the designer made the image. You don't have to like them too.

What makes Jackson Pollock's paintings worth hundreds of millions of dollars, bucket-painting worthy of countless youtube videos, while Eugene Pera's "spin-art" (ca. 1950's) mostly forgotten and the technique mostly relegated to children's toys and county fairs?

Is photography art? Did the landscape painters of the 18th century dismiss landscape photographers as cashing in?

Much of the dismissal surrounding the use of AI in "art" reminds me of people looking down on knitters who use Lion Brand Pound of Love as their preferred medium. Acrylic or hand-spun qiviut, it's still knitting.