You confusing art with images. Art is more deep than just digital generated image.
Do you thing that AI generated images will be bough by collectors or published in art galleries?
Do you thing that AI generated images will be bough by collectors or published in art galleries?
Of course, the “artist” wrote the algorithm, but I can easily imagine an AI putting together something similar.
I think it's obvious that the output of these AIs can be considered art. There is human input at multiple levels - the code, the artists whose works it was trained on, the researchers that scraped/pruned the training set, and ultimately the crafting of prompts by users to achieve a desired output.
What is not obvious is: among those human inputs, which are actually responsible for imparting artistic value on the resultant image, and in what proportion.