Raw LLM Responses

I am a programmer,rather than an artist so my perspective on this question is a bit skewed, but I feel like there are a couple of clarification I can and should add. The AI does not consult thouthand of pieces of existing art every time it tries to generate new art. Instead it had processed those thouthand upon thouthand of pieces of art and aggregated information it was able to skim from them and additional flags provided to accompany them during training. And now it operated based on this aggregated data independently of all the pieces of art it was constructed upon. Like we humans do. Accumulating experience and then using this experience to solve a particular task. So in this sense AI could claim ownership of creating those pieces as much as a real artist would with one tiny exception. It needs a starting point. This reference you type into a generator. Without it there is no image so in a way the creative impulse to generate this art came from outside the AI. And in this sense I feel like no. The art stops qualifying as being created by this AI. At the same time here is a pretty conceivable hypothetical. Imagine there is a bot that on a regular basis uses some algorithm to generate a sentence. Then generates an image based on it. And posts it. Can this be called ar created by AI?