What is the difference between me selecting the specific frame made by a generative algorithm and photographer picking a specific moment in time to capture a frame?
What's the difference between me using a generative algorithm and Michelangelo using assistants to paint the Sistine Chapel?
"What is the difference between me selecting the specific frame made by a generative algorithm and photographer picking a specific moment in time to capture a frame?" -> he captures life and tries to create a embodiment of something that already has a meaning for everybody. He can have multiple ways of underlining different aspects of the same thing. He has total control over How and Why. It is not only technical but it also communicates something in very different ways depending on the subject and how he took the picture.
"What's the difference between me using a generative algorithm and Michelangelo using assistants to paint the Sistine Chapel?" -> these are people not machine.
Generation is a series of unfortunate accidents in search of something that might pass for a goal.
Get interested in some artists and what they have achieved.
A humble human being would never call it self an artist.
That's the first mistake, and it's philosophical rather than technical.
I would say the tool it self is rather an piece of art. Not what it creates.