AI Art can be hard to identify in the wild. But it still largely sucks at helping you achieve specific deliverables. You can get an image. But it’s pretty hard to actually make specific images in specific styles. Yes we have Loras. Yes we have control nets (to varying degrees) and ipadapter (to lesser degrees) and face adapters and what not. But it’s still frustrating to get something consistent across multiple images. Especially in illustrated styles.

AI Art is good if you need something in a general ballpark and don’t care about the specifics

Yep, that's why you see AI art a lot as generic blog hero/banner images.