[btouellette]

No it really isn't. Is Jackson Pollock entirely directing each drop of paint or is there some inherent randomness that is being guided and directed at a higher level? There's a clear analogy to digital art where there exists along a continuum things like traditional digital art tools -> algorithmic generative art -> LLM generated art at varying levels of direct control.

[4ndrewl]

Sim to the other reply, Pollock flicks the paint, he doesn't instruct something to generate flicked paint...

[achierius]

Is your gripe purely that text is involved in the middle? If a paralyzed man painted by verbalizing commands -- left, right, up, down -- that "instructed" a simple machine to move the paintbrush, then by your definition he would simply be "instructing" a machine to "generate" the painting.