Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

Art that can be easily replicated by artificial intelligence is “meaningless”, according to the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who believes even Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse would have had to rethink their approach if AI had existed in their era.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jan/11/art-that-can-be-easily-copied-by-ai-is-meaningless-says-ai-weiwei

I don't know about meaningless, but there is no weird "soul" imparted to human creations, it's all in your own emotional response to what you see

if you can extract just as much meaning from something AI generated, then...yeah, you won't know the difference

git gud, artists and writers