Art generated by AI is, currently, a bit of an oxymoron. The AI certainly creates it, but the AI itself is not creative. It does nothing without prompts. Without requests. It can make it's own choices on how to generate the image with other references, but it cannot create. We must first tell it what to shoot for.
I tell you this because not only is this not true AI, but because I wish to remind you that art is inherently human. We have always invented smarter tools to ease the workload. I remember when people thought that computers would end all forms of traditional art, and yet it lives on. Because art is not generative, it's creative. Humans are creative, as in we create. It's in our nature, as we ourselves were created. More yet, we were created with purpose, and so we too create with purpose.
This last bit, creating with purpose, will forever give human art the edge on machines. AI Art can only be generated for the purpose of the person with the code or the prompts. The AI itself only creates because it's told to, the why doesn't matter to it; the art is merely a task to be accomplished. But those who give prompts are the ones who give it purpose, not the lines of code putting color to imagery. For perfecting the AI's ability to recognize certain things to simple curiosity of the absurdity AI can generate, it is the human input and motivation that truly makes the pictures art.
Humans are incurably religious creatures, and our love and devotion of art, which is creation for creation's sake, is a reminder of that to me. AI Art will very much need to be kept in mind for future contests, but those who think this is the end of creative art fundamentally do not understand the joy that creation can bring to someone.