The first thing we automated passably was art, even before programming. Were you not paying attention?
This future still sucks. The tech industry is making the world a worse place.
Calling AI-generated images art is a stretch. Same thing with creative writing. It can make some low-cost illustrations and writing, but it is very far from decent art. Compare those results with their amazing coding or math capabilities.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-ar...
Two years old now, and as the cryptographers say, attacks only get better.
Those are either copies or bad. I think the difference in quality and originality is huge, even if they can create plausible looking images in already invented styles.
And yet, they're good enough to fool most people, which is what you're trying for if you're aiming to automate the production of art. The fact that we got there more than 2 years ago, before agentic coding was even barely useful, should give you an idea of where things are going.