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The fact that you can whittle a paintbrush in the wilderness but cant build an LLM in the wilderness really doesn't mean anything.
A zine-maker can't make paper and a photocopier in the wilderness but they're still an artist. A digital artist can't code photoshop in the woods, but they're still an artist. And some percentage of prompt fondlers could still draw in the wilderness but that doesn't make their ai art real art.
This is just a bad argument because the complexity of your tools is not what defines an artist.
You missed the point. It says directly in the screenshot that the artist is a digital artist. The entire point is that an artist is not tied to a medium.