I concur, and I don't understand why a lot of artists still talk about AI art as if prompt -> end result is the only way of interacting with these systems. That

I concur, and I don't understand why a lot of artists still talk about AI art as if prompt -> end result is the only way of interacting with these systems. That may have been true in Spring of last year, but entire pipelines, flows, tool integrations, models etc. have been created since then. To really excert control over the generative process, you need more than Dall-E through ChatGPT, you need ControlNet, you need various models, and so on. It's technical artistry as 3D modeling is technical artistry.