AI could be a tool in the context of perhaps having to perform some kind of relatively time consuming and laborious and repetitive process where the objective is that AI can do a "decent" in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Perhaps like designing certain types of web pages.
But you're right, AI will not create anything new because it has to get its information from something that already exists in order to "create" something.
Things like turn photograph into pencil drawing... those are all AI tools.
And of course, doing that with a click is so much easier... and actually worth the time.
Doing it by hand makes it a labor of love... if every you wanted to do it.
And now, they can paint water, waves and such.
But, this really a help when you want to make a particular picture.
But, but, it also means that what we used to consider art, and was painstakingly done, is now a click.
"Certified Human Creation."
Since we have NFTs, perhaps we need to come up with an acronym for art that is entirely human-created.
I just bought in NFT of a CHC! I'm gonna be rich!