[visarga]

How about selection? If I select the good image from 1000 others? Curation is also a contribution to art.

[dragonwriter]

The argument about whether human selection would make the human the author of the work is irrelevant, because the human in this case isn't claiming authorship, by selection or otherwise.

[ZeroTalent]

I would say curation and editing are much more important than creating the art itself, but that might be a very unpopular opinion.

[johnnyanmac]

Perhaps. The argument here is that neither was done, however.