@evan common GenAI images aren't great, since they're generated by image uneducated users.
But I've seen really interesting work by photographers already (it's not a surprise, since their own art got the same criticisms a century ago "it's not your work, it's the machine's", "it's not art, it's engineering"). But that also implies that a lot of curation and post-production takes place in the process, just like photography.
And of course, using the medium to say something through it.