No, I don't consider whoever use AI do make images to be an
artist...
HOWEVER, I've seen some great images created with IA, although after you've seen a few, I gotta say they all seem to have the same bland style of
art...
I've also seen faces with 3 eyes or 4 ears, hands with 6 to 10 fingers, and other weird stuff AI usually dump into the image... but IA it's also and evolving tool so probably those initial weirdness will be fixed sometime in the future.
That said, I've seen also some images made on some IA tool that you can
feed it with your images and tell the IA to make an image based on that original image according to whatever you tell it to put in the new IA image.
Bottom line, IMHO, IA is merely another tool we have at our disposal. It will not replace a true talented artist, no matter how the money bags want it too do that.
Me? Most probably will use it to create anything at some point, but most definitly also use some Photoshop to clean it and give it my own style...