[JohnFen]

Perhaps that's because there's an enormous difference between fine art and computer programs.

Also, there's quite a lot of pushback against AI-generated code, but also because unlike music, normal people have no interest in and aren't aware of the code.

[codexon]

They are obviously different things, but aren't the people who spent thousands of hours honing their coding and releasing their code spending just as much time and effort if not more than the people who made non-ai images and music?

[ZoomZoomZoom]

There certainly are. If you by chance imply equivalence based on time and effort spent, neither is the thing that differentiates arts, crafts and other activities.