Comment by pjerem

I agree.

But in your case the art would be in everything else that isn’t the sprites. By everything else I mean everything the author would have care about. It wouldn’t mean that the sprites couldn’t be aesthetically appealing but only that this part of the game wouldn’t be what’s artistic about it.

I think IA can be incorporated into art as long as it is made consciously, but IA generated content in itself couldn’t be the art piece.