This is so incredibly correct.
Art is about conveying some form of the human experience, the only way that is possible is for a human to create with their own hands. To pour their feelings and thoughts into what they create.
Generative A.I can only use what has already been created and is incapable of expressing anything about the human experience.
While yes, people often take inspiration from other people, that’s the important difference. They are still a PERSON capable of communicating the experience, and sometimes they can even create something entirely new.
Generative A.I is a Hivemind, its human instrumentality, where all individuality and humanity is lost. It doesn’t say anything, it doesn’t represent anything, and doesn’t make you feel anything. It can only ever produce a cheap soulless imitation of what humans have already created.
It’s not your expression, it’s a machine given words that it uses to create a consensus of how other people have expressed it. Expression is your voice, not the voices of others serrated and dragged through a machine made to mimic your mouth. You express nothing, you forfeit your voice to allow the rest of humanity to speak for you. Here, you even say the ultimate goal is the erasure of human voices. Your “expression” leads to a lack of humanity, not a furtherance of it. Every iteration and invention of art has found new ways to allow us to culminate the human experience through sensation, but generative AI is cancer, it’s the cells of what we’ve already built spinning ad nauseam until all we “make” is what others have already made. It’s a dead end and lifeless, and goes against whatever spirit, soul, or God gave us the gift of creation in the first place.