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I think the argument is that artists will create art even with limited tools regardless.
I'm an artist that works on computers all day doing things like Photoshop touch-ups. But to use those tools, I started out by scribbling on anything and everything with whatever I had available all my life. Doing so let me understand the the finer details as well as how to achieve certain looks. I carried those skills into my digital work.
If I don't have a computer, I still create art even if I have not used the medium before. I might not pick up a paintbrush and become Caravaggio, but what I will do is draw on my experience to make something a tad better than someone who has never made anything themselves.
This person probably never drew on a rock with charred sticks. But they probably used a pencil on paper and those skills are similar.
But then everyone is an artist, like what makes yoy an artist and not me an artist? Oh you pay your rent by creating art? Then you're a "professional" artist.
What makes an artist an artist is a question that will be debated for a long time.
But someone jamming a prompt into a LLM does not make them an artist.