It's like asking someone to make you a sandwich and then stipulating what you want on the sandwich then, once the sandwich is on a plate in front of you, you proudly exclaim "Wow, I'm quite the chef, aren't I?"

The sandwich maker in this case is just not a person, it's a computer.

[–] Lime66@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I compare it to commissioning a piece and then bragging about how much effort you put into it. But that's also a really good analogy

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Looking at it a different way, that would be like a photographer taking a photo of the sandwich and proclaiming "I'm an artist" or a director telling a chef what to make, telling a cinematographer/camera operator how to shoot it, and an editor how to cut it to create a short film of a sandwich and proclaiming "I'm an artist". Art can be made from a series of creative and purposeful decisions that result in a piece of expression. It might not be good art, it might not be effortful art, it might even be unethically made art, but it's not not-art.