Sure, and construction workers hit nails with hammers before they had nail guns.
Sometimes tools make doing the same things faster. Using AI to recolor a complex image based on a starting image instead of doing it by hand is just doing the same thing faster, like a lot of other tech that is used intentionally and not just vomiting something based on a few keywords.
Thats work artists with visions did before.
Sure, and construction workers hit nails with hammers before they had nail guns.
Sometimes tools make doing the same things faster. Using AI to recolor a complex image based on a starting image instead of doing it by hand is just doing the same thing faster, like a lot of other tech that is used intentionally and not just vomiting something based on a few keywords.