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If you're talking about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
that's a seminal work of avant guard art. You are still talking about it 100 years later. It's obviously great art.
Art is a work of visual, auditory, or written media that makes you feel emotion. That's it. Does this pile of rocks make you feel happy or sad or anything? Then it's art.
AI makes pictures like a camera does. It doesn't make it art unless you make something that evokes emotion.
We're saying the same thing. AI can create art. My point was that we used to claim that art was a domain that was unassailable by machines, and this obviously is not true. So now, humans - or the particular human to whom I was replying - had a new goalpost: adaptabiility.
We'll keep coming up with new goalposts where "humans have an edge" that will keep us relevant and ascendant over machines, and irreplaceable. I believe we'll run out of goalposts faster than many people would like.
You know, there is one small other hope I have: that, despite how we've raised them, our children will be better than us, and will stop the cycle of wealth concentration. It's unlikely, but it's the only chance I see.