AI bros aren't missing the point of man-made art, they are disgusted by it.

It's the classic fascist disgust toward the arts.

There is absolutely no surprise that the bearer of that torch, right now, is the openly techno-fascist and eugenicist core that is Silicon Valley.

They hate what art represents: the unfettered freedom, the disruptive nature.

They despise the message that art has conveyed over centuries. They hate the progressiveness embedded in art, not the process, not the skill, not the humanity of it. Those, in their eyes, are unfortunate victims of their war against the message. Once again fascism is evident in the fact that they dismiss those victims as necessary collateral.

They hate the message embedded by artists in media and will stop at nothing to replace it with their own.

This is also how the Nazis ended up hating Nietzsche the person, a fervent antifascist, while embracing the specific literal idea of an Übermensch, once it was stripped of the message actually conveyed through Nietzsche's art.

This mirrors how and why Silicon Valley hates artists but not the medium of art.

They love the Ghibli Studio art style but hate the message that Ghibli Studio movies deliver. They don't want to kill the art, they want to kill the message and, if needed, also the messenger, so that they can repackage their message in the art.

There is no delusion greater than believing the human soul is tangible. Like the Nazis, they hold eugenicist beliefs and many of them wrote books praising the subject.

There is no reason to believe a group subscribing to delusions about IQ representing anything at all, or intelligence being genetically inheritable, would ever also not believe that art is objective.

They see men as soulless machines, through their rejection of the idea of anything that is not embedded in DNA or powered by precise chemical reactions, they also see art as that, something they can understand with careful mathematics.

They do not perceive AI art as shallow, or meaningless; rather, they believe it to be objective and literal and therefore a superior, more pure form.

To them, the presence of an underlying message is a perverse act.

This same way Nazis hated artists for their message but not the art once it was redacted out of it, Silicon Valley also takes the same stance on the matter.

Silicon Valley has long proselytized their belief that engineers should rule the world but they don't mean mathematicians or scientists. They don't want Einstein's opinion; they just want the Law of Relativity. They don't want programmers; they want machines, automatons executing a given task.

Silicon Valley doesn't want AI art because it is faster than an artist or cheaper than their hourly wage.

They want AI because it cannot embed an underlying message in its output.