i mean, it IS art. you are just using a tool that makes it much much easier to put your mind into the screen.
art is a process not a thing on a screen. get rid of the tension between idea and realisation and you get rid of most of what is interesting about art. (besides i’m sorry for your mind if your imagination is adequately represented by the output of stock image generators.)
ai art is also a process, albeit a different one. its not easy to get good creative results.
i’d tend to agree if we were talking about something that is actually interesting instead of an incredibly generic piece of kitsch art.