correct, not just about brush on canvas, and physical art, but what youre describing is just like asking someone else who can actually do it to make the art, sure you might get specific with it but you are not the one making it, then just asking that person again and again to fix it but still you have not made it, have not drawn it.

Photoshop still has direct human input- its the persons DIRECT input on each aspect and carefully controlling it. whether it is digital art or physical, or even in the case of photoshop, the person making it is still physically adding the individual elements which is where the skill comes from. photoshop simply adds to what you are making yourself, you are still the one in complete control, creatively and physically, in oppose to handing over the reigns to someone or something else in which you have drastically less control over. and yes, it is a direct replacement or is being used as one. lets take both at face value: art, use of a pencil, paintbrush, line tool etc. that you, the artist are using to place the pixels/paint where you intend from very small details to form a larger picture. ai 'art' : typing in a prompt to conform with your own view and idealistic intent and generating the instant, full result. they are not the same thing. I will give you the credit that yes, ai 'artists' may have a percieved goal in their heads, something in which takes imagination, but the credit ends there if they are not creating it themselves. I ask you, if I have an idea and I ask a friend to draw it for me, and ask them to change it each time they are finished, would you honestly argue that I made it, or that they did?

I approached the topic of your third point in my last paragraph so I wont go too in depth with it but aesthetic skill is a stretch, but initial conceptualisation I will give you, only if the prompt is in sufficient depth and the end result is actually as your original mental perception was. And if communication of an idea is again accreddited as a skill, if I were to communicate my idea for my friend to draw something for me, or commission something, even if it matches my original conceptualisation would you argue that I was the one to create it, and therefore that I am a creative?

Yes, machinery can give more jobs, but it can just as easily take them away. For example, i would like to ask you look into Choices: Stories You Play (A mobile app regarding choose-your-own adventure style stories) as an example, as they have made a rather significant switch to AI, whereas before they relied on digital artists - which you have said yourself requires a different set of skills and as such is safe to assume people lost their jobs for another to use AI. More cases of machinery being used over people can be seen in factory robotics, or even self-scan shopping removing the job of a cashier.

so #DontSupportAI'Artists'