[TaylorAlexander]

This was not at all clear to me, nor is it clear upon rereading it now with this information. Plenty of people believe that without reservation.

[nickburns]

i appreciate your frank reply. by posing my question in such a way so as to illicit discourse, my position was lost and does read ambiguous.

i would like to not agree with you that plenty of people believe machine-generated work is even in the same universe as human art (including that which is not painted). but i'm afraid you may be right.