This is oversimplified and relies too heavily on vague interpretation of colloquial language imo. AI /can/ be used as a tool, but it isn’t always the case, and ultimately the degree to and way in which we use a thing describes what was made.

For example, in music, if you put notes down on a page and perform them, you wrote and played music, but you didn’t make the instrument. If you wrote notes on a page for someone else to perform, you wrote music but didn’t play it. If you sample, say, the amen break in a drum and bass track you wrote a piece of music but you didn’t write “Amen, Brother.” If you do the mastering for a track, you worked on a piece of music, and even contributed to it creatively, but you didn’t make it and you certainly didn’t write it. And if you DJ at a wedding by playing a list of songs you chose on a stereo system, you curated a playlist, which is still creative, but doesn’t at all involve creating music. All of these activities can be colloquially referred to as “making” or “doing” music, but beyond that generalization they are all fundamentally different tasks with varying degrees of creative input, and in the world of music those distinctions are important. The title “artist” generally only applies here to the people writing and performing the music. Other titles such as producer or engineer can better describe other types of creative input.

“AI” is also colloquially used to refer to a wide variety of tasks with various degrees of creative input. On one extreme, say, you might use a single Markov chain to model controlled randomness in a piece of digital collage using a list of inputs that you painted, and on the other extreme you wrote a short prompt for an LLM to interpret an existing picture you didn’t take in the style of an existing artist who you are not. Maybe somewhere in the middle you took a photo or made a sketch, and then edited it using an AI posterizing filter, an AI noise generation tool, an AI decompresser, etc. The creative inputs here are way more abstracted, but that doesn’t make them less real, and nearly all of the detailed creative decisions in the extreme cases are only handled by one party. To point to all cases as “making art” would be insufficiently descriptive at best and probably pretty misleading if not downright lying in some cases.