The Black Box

Suppose you have two black boxes. One contains a human illustrator, and the other an AI server. You can post a prompt through the box and you will eventually see a resultant image come out of a printer next to it. If the AI is sufficiently advanced, there should be no way to tell the difference between it and a human, and so the two boxes should be indistinguishable. A person submitting prompts has the exact same experience regardless of the contents.

Therefore we can say that if you are making art when you submit a prompt to the AI box, you are also making art when you submit a prompt to the human box.

Do the advocates of AI art genuinely believe that someone commissioning work from a human artist is an artist themselves simply because they described what they wanted to see? If not, then you can't say that a person is an artist just because they commission work from an AI artist by the same method.