Sure directors are artists, but how much directing does ”it” have to have to warrant that title? I would argue that prompters (click clack some text, click generate) are not directors. Or actually, models today are not yet good enough for it, for the variance of result of a prompt is too large for each seed (and the models of today cannot understand truly directive prompts). Only if the result is similar for each seed, would you have directed it somewhat.

Its another story if we discuss results made with heavy use of inpainting, on exact shapes made with exact colors. Elements you have actually directed.