That’s the beauty of art. It spawns discussion and it can’t be nailed down to any singular definition. You and the person you responded to are completely correct

I think with ai art though the issue is not the user’s ability to tweak the prompts but more the fact that anything generated from an AI is stolen work

If there was a way to train your own ai (llm, genai) off of your own creations or the works of others with their explicit consent then I’d consider that art. But the biggest issue right now is many of these ais are using stolen work across the board to generate their images, regardless of how much time and care goes into crafting the perfect prompt