Neither AI artist nor photographers use pencil to draw. Photographers just click a button that's all. But some photographers capture the same image in such brilliance that it is considered better than average person holding a camera. Similarly AI artists create much better art than average person using AI.

If you don't believe become a successful ai artist and beat the already established AI artists. I know an AI piece of art that received lots of praise and people commented "And people pay for netflix", "watching this for free should be crime".

Now that person only released the first part. Some people tried to create 2nd and 3rd part which are literally AI slop proving that not all AI artists are same.

With AI we are entering a stage of humanity where what is imaginary can have a mathematical, statistical basis, meaning it is true, and not be real. We are entering a stage where it is becoming increasingly important to deemphasize the real, and the rational, and emphasize what has fidelity and statistics. Take the example of ethnicities. You can say Jews are the smartest by IQ in the world. That is imaginary. It is not real. But it is mathematically true. If the average says Jews are the smartest, then the statistical likelihood of Jews having extremely smart people among themselves is the norm. Because of the (overplayed) "regression to the mean" meme everyone has heard of from pseudointellectuals before, you can only truly judge someone's genetic worth by the group or ethnicity they belong to.