I don't rule out that possibility, even in the present, of something eliciting a valid emotional reaction that was made entirely by a machine (trained on material that was uncredited and not paid for and that might very well make the makers of the source material live even more precarious lives, but I digress). My problem is the reductionist attitude that too many have where removing human beings from art is seen as some "objective" or even "Materialistic(tm)" good.