And people who use Photoshop are?

There is somewhat famous digital artist from Russia - Alexey Andreev. Google it, he has very distinctive style of realistic technique and surrealistic situations, like landing big manta ray on the deck of aircraft carrier. Or you can see his old works in his 5-years-not-updates LJ [1].

Now he uses generative AI as one of his tools. As Photoshop, as different (unrealistic!) brushes in Photoshop, as other digital tools. His style is still 100% recognizable and his works don't become worse or more "generic". Is he still artist? I think so.

Where will you draw the line?

[1] - https://alexandreev.livejournal.com/

For every Alexey Andreev there are about 248518 blogs with "AI" generated illustrations that you just scroll past without noticing :)

This is true. They are just taking a sample from a generated latent space, just like taking a photo of something doesn't make you an artist.

So, there is no artists in, for example, street photography? Picture must be altered to become art, or staged?

Was it irony? :)

They are photographers. Here is the definition of an artist so you can have better clarity on what an artist is:

"A person who creates art (such as painting, sculpture, music, or writing) using conscious skill and creative imagination"

Your definition assumes that photography is not art and/or doesn't involve conscious skill and creative imagination. That's not the consensus, to put it mildly.

Everything is art then and we are all artists. Happy? Also consensus != correct.

I took gp as satire. But maybe not haha.

I use generative AI to rubber duck and help improve my code.

Am I no longer a software engineer?

I don’t think this is quite right. I think paraphrasing The Incredibles has a better take:

When everybody is an artist, then nobody will be one.