why people call AI image gen "art" - note: this is not a question but a opinion of AI and art

I’ve been thinking a lot about why people call image generation “art,” and I want to approach this from a place of curiosity rather than frustration. This isn’t a rant about people being wrong. It’s an attempt to understand the “why” behind the disagreement. For context, I’m someone who works primarily with stories and novels, so I tend to approach art from a philosophical angle. The question of intention has always mattered to me. What makes something art is not just how it looks, but what it carries from the person who made it.