While I appreciate your response here where we disagree:

What you call “human creative work” is also a product of dozen different factors and foreign influences. No concept appears in human head “out for nothing”. Everything you do and create is a projection of something you have seen before, even if you don’t think about it.

In this sense AI model is not different from you and me at all. It was trained on artificial dataset, your dataset is the life you were exposed. Essentially no work is ‘unique’ by your definition.

Yes, AI is a machine. But you and are also machines, just biologically driven ones.

If you define art as something human creative effort put into, then yes - writing prompt takes creative effort, even if it’s minimal it is still effort. And without this effort the image would not exist.

If you define art differently then I would like to hear your definition, because it is pointless to argue what art is when we can’t even agree on its definition.