One of my favorite things I keep hearing is "its just like humans" but its not. They try to say "you steal others art" or "you couldn't do it without seeing the 'masters' art" or the like. Which just isn't true at all. If you take a turtle, for example a real turtle, and show it to someone, then hand them a medium and show them they can make shapes with it, that person can make a "turtle". Will it be perfect? Probably not, but it will be a turtle, with practice using no other references or anything that person will develop a style of making that turtle, find changes they can make while creating it that appeal to them. From that alone realistic art, cartoons, amalgamations (such as a a turtle combined with a tree) can be made, to name just a few. All from one thing that's in no way related to other's art.

I'm by no means saying Ai art is bad, or that we can't learn from others art, use them for references, etc, but we don't need them to be creative. It should be a useful tool, and if we could actually have it work like a human really does, it should be able to do the same. And this is a very over simplified version of this lol.