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If this is your first time making a game, you should do everything yourself the first time.

Doing all of the work yourself at least once (or at least really giving it a go) will help you develop two of the most important skills in game development: understanding what parts of the process of game dev you like and are best at, and understanding how much time and effort it takes to get to something you think is good.

AI shouldn't be used as a replacement for not learning a skill. You will never have as much control over an AI doing the work for you as you want, and your role as the middle man between whatever AI agent you are using to do all the work and the end result is not a good or fulfilling place to be.

You don't have to avoid AI all together, but use it in ways that enhance the skills you care about developing instead of filling in for ones you lack. A good example for art is using it for placeholder art when you are starting something new or experimenting with an artistic choice. Using AI as a more convenient way to look up information while you are coding is very different than prompting what you want done and blasting it directly into your project.

Do you want to learn how to draw or buy a 3D printer with a pencil holder attachment and download images for it to draw for you?