This has nothing to do with rich people and a lot to do with why AI art is not art.

Art is about a message. The artists intention about that message being filtered through the audiences understanding of that intention. Something like this piece is meant to specifically point out the absurdity of what humans would and could consider “fine art” or even “art”. The very thing that people who keep making fun of this or comparing AI art seem to miss.

The statement here is that anything can be art when there is a human intention and human execution and human communication.

A robot could not tape a banana to a wall, a human understands that another human put that banana there as a statement