I mean, are we pretending that this is a surprise?

I know we've spent the better part of the last century debating what "art" is, but I think we have fairly conclusive evidence that it isn't this.

No intention behind it, no human connection, none of the things we seek to find in art (including video games).

Everyone needs to read the famous essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' by Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). He wrote about the Industrial Revolution, but his points become ever more salient in the age of AI.

His central thesis is the concept of "aura": the difference between a carefully crafted work of art and a mechanically mass-produced, but otherwise identical, object. When you describe something as "hollow", that's what's missing.