It seems you have abandoned your thesis in order to retain your belief that concerns about imagegen tech "are worthless".

Defining "concerns about AI" broadly as "is it art?" while obstinately denying the possibility for real concerns about imagegen tech: theft of intellectual property by the wealthy, environmental, economic, expressive, and on and on.

> I don't claim others misunderstand art.

> gp: I'd suggest people learn about ...

Is a passive aggressive way to say "you misunderstand this due to your ignorance".

> I also know there are a many copies of Fountain... which again, demonstrates the concept of thingness

> gp: Fucking Duchamp’s readymades should make any concern about AI worthless.

If anything this "demonstrates the thingness in consumerism".

My point was you are ex post facto conflating your opinion of the items in the gift shop with the named artist's own expression.