Art is as much an accidental result of a creative process as it is planned. Both elements, chance and plan, are contained in works of art that are generally regarded as meaningful. Where only pure chance prevails, without some planning (or determination) one may see only splashes of colour on a canvas.
Where only planning drives the maker, the spontaneous, the unexpected is missing and the viewer feels neither surprise nor has many questions. A work that contains only the intentional can do little to surprise and irritate, a work that sets out to express only the unintentional will not get around that very part of the intention, to let this unintentional emerge. What energetic charge is contained in a work is determined by the artist, as you also mentioned here. Where someone creates a work that does not contain the artist's soul, it will hardly be passed around and perhaps only be quite "nice" to look at or listen to.
AI art, as it is made possible, can also be both. A thoughtless mind, basically completely disinterested in art, using the spontaneous random mixing of the machine. Or someone who integrates his soul into this process and pursues an artistically interested intention.
AI-generated art seems to me to take chance into the programme, after which an artist searches but does not actually search for it meticulously. But where nothing is deliberately sought and unintentionally found, there is no artist at work, but merely an operator, a user of technology. Basically, this does not distinguish AI art from art with brushes, paints and canvas in physical form. Where the soul is missing, it will not grab the viewer.
Art is a collaborative act in which artist and viewer (audience) alike give feedback. A work of art is charged with energy by the many, the soloist is unable to achieve anything if the many do not play back the energy they felt before in the contemplation of a work of art. Soulless art will also remain unconsidered in the AI-generated approach, so the medium basically doesn't matter.
As long as there are organics that give meaning to each other, all art is organic, even the inorganic.
The meaning, that is a part known, something we can understand, because otherwise art would be uninteresting with at the same time something we cannot understand, cannot really grasp, define, analyse.
RE: I created A.I. Art! But is it *really* art?