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Yes.
Art is made by living things. Until AI is alive it cannot make art. Current models don't fit the bill. That's not saying that a far more advanced future AI couldn't make art, but at present AI can't make art.
And by what definition would an advanced AI be "alive" enough to create art?
When it can be proven to think for itself and not regurgitate what it thinks you want to hear. When it steps past lines of code, not as a façade or fascimile, but as its own being with its own goals and its own sense of realised existence.
If I may rephrase it: Art can be created by an AI only if it has agency and self-awareness (or, more general, conciousness).
Is that necessary though to create art?
Quite a loaded philosophical question, but an important one if we want to talk about the essence of art and the beings – either natural or artificial – that create it.
Do you think animals, apart from humans, can create art?
By that definition, those without a (known) sense of self-awareness or conciousness, couldn't. And yet, we can see behaviour that we would call "art". Be it a bird, which mimicks sounds or invents a dance to impress females, or a fish that draws patterns into the sand for similar reasons.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's dolphin poetry. Most animals simply don't seem to be able or interested, though, the development of art as a reflective practice (as in: the science of subjective choice) requires a lack of pre-programming, reliance on self-reprogramming, that's mostly limited to humans as far as we're aware.
Cats seem to like music in pretty much the same way as we like purring, as in: It resonates with them, but so far there's no cat composers out there, reflecting the thrill and joy of the hunt in terms of music. I'd totally listen to that.