"ai" art has existed in the form of "generative art" for a while now. It's just a rebrand. It's artificial, but about as Intelligent as fishing with dynamite. You get out of it what you put into it. So your enjoyment in "creating" the art is relative to your proximity of creating the actual algorithms, nuetral nets, programs, whatever you want to call the black box that generate the art that you claim to have guided into existence. I guarantee you that if you knew how it felt to make something worth making you would think you are cheating yourself of the enjoyment in creating art. I know because I've been there, and now I'm not.
Furthermore, artists talk about who they like all the time. and you can usually find out where they went to school or who they got it from. Either in a documentary, on their social media, or historically in letters that you can sometimes find In art history books. Some movements have a manifesto with signatures of working artists of the time and you can put them in the same sphere of influence in that was. But I guess you just aren't tapped in like that. Which is fine, just don't speak as the authority on it.
It's a very "idea guy" position to think that you are on the bleeding edge of art and not just hitting "generate" on the anime titties prompt. Go buy a Strathmore Bristol sketchbook and some chalk pastels and see if you can feel something knock loose in you head.