The pencil does not make the art.

There’s a fundamental difference between AI image generation and an artist creating something that is both inherent and obvious.

If you can’t see that then I’m not sure there’s much help for you.

More than that, art being created by an artist has a style and a feeling behind it. There’s a nostalgia present in every painting. An artist saw something, and recreated it in a way that spoke to them.

An algorithm can recreate images that look similar but with no understanding. It’s just an image and lacks all the things that makes art what it is. By removing humanity from art you literally remove the reason for it to exist.

Flatly, it isn’t art. It’s slightly better than random. But as it happens, humans are better at that too.