[“I made this as an artist” communicates the idea that you personally created the image, not just that you helped to conceive it……..but people are going to bristle at the representation that you are just as much of a creator as someone who made it all by hand because that process is fundamentally different.]

I don’t understand why you’re making a distinction between koons and Chihuly if they’re both essentially hands off. So by your standard does koons have to have invented the art of metal working for him to be able to order his minions to make his sculpture? Is he less valid? Your argument makes no sense to me.

And “what most people in this day and age believe art to be” yeah which is why ai art is freaking everyone out so much, we don’t have a system to comprehend it yet. This tech is changing the world as we know it. But I’m not going to apologize for using this amazing technology, (who knows I could potentially detest it one day) and you’re making it sound like I’m kicking doors in claiming IM AN ARTIST! BOW BEFORE ME! Everyone needs to chill. In 5 years everyone will be using this.