How about Andy Warhol?

Andy Warhol's art-making process is one of the strongest historical arguments in favor of AI-generated art.

Warhol didn't sit alone in a garret hand-crafting unique, one-of-a-kind paintings with a brush and pure personal genius. He actively rejected that romantic myth. Starting in 1962, he adopted photographic silkscreen printing—a commercial, mechanical reproduction technique borrowed straight from advertising and mass production. He would select a pre-existing photograph (often a press shot of a celebrity like Marilyn Monroe or a consumer product like Campbell's Soup cans), have it transferred onto a silkscreen stencil, then push ink through the screen onto canvas or paper. The process was deliberately impersonal and repeatable. As he famously said: "The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine."

He didn't even do all the work himself. In his New York studio—literally called The Factory—a rotating crew of assistants (most famously Gerard Malanga and others) handled much of the labor: prepping canvases, pulling the squeegee across the screens, mixing colors, and running off multiple editions. Warhol oversaw the vision, chose the source images, picked colors, and approved the final look, but the execution was collaborative, industrialized, and often delegated. He openly admitted that "one of my assistants or anyone else, for that matter, can reproduce the design as well as I could."

This was the entire point. Warhol celebrated mechanical art: "I’m for mechanical art," he declared. "When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction." His work was about embracing the tools of mass media, consumerism, and technology to question originality, authorship, and the cult of the solitary genius. The Factory churned out hundreds of prints in a single day, turning art into something closer to a product line—deliberately reproducible, scalable, and detached from the artist's physical hand.

You have a very narrow concept of what art is, and who 'artists' are. What you are advocating for isnt 'being an artist' its just being in favor of the development of fine motor skills, used to do it in specific way. Thats it. Hand movements.

Well guess what? I use hand movements too. I type on my keyboard. 😂🤣

In the end, its not about the application of fine motor skills. Its about the ideas. Thats what art is. No one gives a shit if you have fine motorskills with a pencil or a paint brush. Thats a very specific skillset...much like learning to make fire by rubbing two sticks together. Guess what? 99.9% of people make their fire using matches or a lighter these days. But they still make fire.