AI generation is a gradient from clean up to controlling every pixel.

If an artist draws the line art, does basic coloring, but has a network do the sharing, that’s art. How far does that carry?

Surely, anything that had heart and soul poured into it is art, right? Text prompt, or otherwise. You don’t have to resonate with it. You can be scared of it.

But you said imagination, feeling, skill make up art. It is bold, or naive, to think those who create AI works doesn’t have these traits, like to say the hobbies, programmers, and the curious, aren’t artists.