I refuse to consider anything AI generated to be legitimate art.

There’s nothing intentional about it, you simply give a prompt to a machine and it matches the pattern. That isn’t art just like how doing madlibs isn’t the same as writing literature.

A person using AI tools can be ok as long as it’s a human doing the overall composition.

Like using AI to make samples to use in a song is fine, using AI to generate the entire song isn’t.