Would you have a problem if AI was no longer a tool but the artist itself (i.e. no human intervention)?

People seem to have an irrational fear of being entertained by AI, equating that to admitting that it is a higher form of intelligence than their own.

I would have no problem with that. I wouldn't maybe call the AI an artist though, it wouldn't have sentient knowledge to be an artist. It would be art made by a machine. In fact, we have several of those examples already, and there's lots there are really fun and appreciated out there. This new one just happens to be quite more complex and eerie to digest at first.