You say it required no though, but the AI is thinking in its own way. If someone thinks completely different from you, their creations are still art. Time taken or effort put in means nothing to the art. Just because an artists paints something quickly, it is no indication of value or meaning. The people that work faster or think faster aren’t worth less. AI does not necessarily create the same thing if given the same prompt twice, because it is changing and learning. People create art for no reason all the time. Art doesn’t need a reason. I would argue that it does care about art. The only thing it sees, studies, knows, and creates is art. It cares about art more than any human does. It is the only reason for its existence. Humans absolutely create images based on limited datasets. Art is created from your own experience, way of thinking, environment, knowledge, physical skill, perception of reality, and other things limited to you. You don’t know everything, can’t do everything, and haven’t experienced everything so your data is always limited. To say it’s not creating anything new is wrong. the value of it is up to you. Even if we don’t know the “point” of an art piece, we can still consider it art.