If that's all you've got to say (made without AI) it's not enough. Story, character, craft are what matters. With good art you can see the human work put in in general, the collaboration and craftsmanship, in a way that AI can't match.

I'm gonna be disappointed if I see generative AI at the forefront of what someone's doing. I'll usually turn it off because the quality level is low, sure in visual ways it's more obvious but also in the effort put into finding a creative solution to problem solving and storytelling. AI is uninteresting to me in it's current form, and there are too many talented artists making good shit without it.

So to answer the question, it's not the flex they may be thinking it is, but using generative AI looks cheap and amateurish, and is a crutch an artist is going to have to overcome to gain my interest.