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what you are saying and agree wholeheartedly. I've posted recently about this AI/creativity issue with respect to music. I will never accept, call creative or use the label artist for people who largely sit at a keyboard, and without a single bit of inspiration in their own thoughts, and with no more skill than typing have a software program fill it all in for them whether it be visual or aural. They are not songwriters, composers, photographers, sculptors, painters or anything else.

I do make a distinction between the AI/auto-fill aspects of this and those who work in graphic arts and video. That distinction being if the design came from the mind of a human and if the resulting work required specialized knowledge and skill from the hands, eyes and ears of a human in order to exist. I'm not interested in the least at what lines of code think is beautiful, meaningful or touching.

Those who would watch a performance of "Swan Lake" by robots, dancing to music generated not by human beings in an orchestra but by circuits replicating notes from sheet music, are those who have little distinction from the robots themselves.