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That is the point actually. Having an artistic skill set is relevant to being an artist, not the tools themselves, because creating art is a whole process.
AI tech bros are equating typing a prompt into an AI generator, which is basically like using a search engine to find existing art from a creative perspective, and creating art.
I mean there is an art form where you just take cut up elements of art (photos of eyes, face portions, etc.) and carefully paste them together into a piece of art. And that's still art. Because an artist actually thought about these elements, took them, pasted them, all for specific effect. (And like all arts there's good exemplars and bad ones.) Someone doing the same thing with random pieces kinda/sorta thrown together isn't making art, however.
AI picture generators are like the latter one: just taking random pieces of shit, and sticking them together. It is not making them for specific effect because it doesn't know what specific effect even MEANS. It pairs certain collections of picture elements with certain words, randomly throws them together without any regard for the whole, and slops that onto the screen.
Which is why you get bizarre incoherences like belts not continuing when a strand of hair crosses over top, say, or buttons that button nothing in random locations, or the infamous cthonic fingers of doom. There's no comprehension.