No. I would sit at my computer and make my own pictures in the same vein. Get a chuckle out of them and then delete them. Like I've been for months now.
But if I didn't have the capability to make these kind of images myself at home on my GPU with my brain with my own words that generate prompts... I don't think I would feel short-changed knowing that an art book contains images that someone put time and effort into thinking of the words to generate the images that hopefully they also brought into other photo editing software to clean up a bit and put a little personal flair onto.
I would feel short changed if the person just had absolutely zero creativity and used some sort of prompt collection website and then just generated a bunch of pictures over the course of a couple days and then just casually went through all of the pictures selected a couple of them and then just sent them off to Google photos to turn into a picture book or something.
Edit: now, would I do any of this given that I have the ability to do this at home on my computer offline? Hell no. Even if I made the best children's picture book or adult picture book or whatever pictures I would have to be seriously convinced by multiple people that I should sell whatever pictures that I've made because otherwise I think that art should just be free for people to enjoy and I'm not even talking about legal complications involved because I don't give a shit about those.
Edit: and to your aside: I think there's more of a possibility of touch up artists using actual photos or pictures as the original base along with in and out painting to modify the picture either by using straight up AI or expanding the canvas and crudely drawing what they want changed and then feeding that in for loopback to be in painted and then outpainted. there's more possibility there.