“What if we looked at it from the other extreme, what if an artist made a wildly difficult and complicated series of restraints in order to create a piece, say, they made their art while hanging upside-down and being whipped while painting,” he said. “Should this artist’s work be evaluated differently than another artist that created the same piece ‘normally’? I know what will become of this in the end, they are simply going to create an ‘artificial intelligence art’ category I imagine for things like this.”

You know that would be pretty badass if he had painted this hanging upside-down, but he didn’t. He surely wouldn’t have been able to do it normally, either. It’s cheating. It’s like submitting a CNC-carved piece to a woodworking competition. It doesn’t matter that you told the machine what to do, a machine still did the craft. It’s dishonest and a kick in the nuts to actual talented artists that make beautiful things with their own two hands. That thing he did belongs in a coding competition, not an arts competition.