Hi,
actually there are whole sectors of fashion and advertising that renounce the use of photoshop to alter photographs beyond recognition, and there are examples of "rebellion" even on instagram against the fake flat stomach (real life vs instagram life) or fake-beauty.
That said, I personally find your logic extremely stretched:
"Today no one asks if you used PS to make or alter a picture; folks just look at the final result. Is it good or bad? Do I like it or not? That's the only thing that matters, not what kind of brush or a program or AI you used."
It's not just the result that matters, if you want an appreciation, it's HOW you did it, your creative process.
Photoshop is a tool but you have to interact with a specific interface to produce what you want.
The AI generates something for you that you alone couldn't do - and if you were capable of doing it, why would you attribute an accomplishment of yours to the AI?
The truth is that the "art" produced by AI, is not yours. You have not used your skill and intellect to produce it.
So, you are free to use the AI.
You are free to say that the image is produced by the AI, but ultimately you are just showing a product that is not yours (also because the AI itself does not generate anything, but takes "pieces" from its catalog-"intelligence" and mixes them).