Ooh, this is a rare one! A comment directly noting the similarities between AI art with photography, but insisting both aren't art. You're in very historical company: https://daily.jstor.org/when-photography-was-not-art/

>Photography couldn’t qualify as an art in its own right, the explanation went, because it lacked “something beyond mere mechanism at the bottom of it.”

That has nothing to do with the technology, that has everything to do with the quality.

Is it art if I take a picture with the cap on? No. Is it art if I take a picture of a tan colored wall? No.

Is it art if I set up something beautiful and take a picture. Its closer to art than the previous few examples.

If I write a prompt that says: "a green bedroom with art work on the walls", to be inspired, that still isnt trying to be art.

Basically, have higher standards.