I went to a restaurant and ordered exactly what food I wanted, so clearly I am a chef. (That's what AI "artists" sound like to me.)
That's a good analogy.
It makes me think of the whole "are racecar drivers athletes" discussion; 30 years ago the consensus was "no", but nowadays? A F1 or Nascar driver is a guy on a special diet, who has to handle insane temperature and sustained unnatural G-loads, etc. A lot more people (especially those that know drivers) would probably think "yes" than they would have a generation ago. Esentially, the gap of physical capability between a regular person and a race car driver has increased.
Similarly, I think looking back on this after AI tools have developed another 20 or 30 years we'll be a little more generous with it. Right now, most people can learn how to make pretty good AI images in a few hours of practice and tutorial-watching. But a decade from now there will be professional AI-wranglers that can get the most out of them and they will have specialized skills far beyond what most of us could quickly (or maybe ever) attain. At that point the line will get a little blurrier.
We collectively had a similar discussion in the 90s about digital art. There was a time that calling someone who did great photoshop work an "artist" got you a lot of dirty looks from the art crowd, but it's acceptable nowadays.