No, I mean the American MFA and writing craft professionally as an art. Story telling is separate from a specific art, so I believe we are in two different domains. It’s difficult to talk about general art when I am specifically talking about art as a modern phenomena.
The MFA I believe from my experience generates a lot of mimetic art and that much of the “industry” is retelling stories. In art history, I don’t think this is as controversial.
I don’t also think you can say with definition that robots have no consciousness? Like when was this debate settled? From my understanding the academic conversation on consciousness is far more nuanced than robot bad.
But I agree that AI is disruptive, probably illegal and immoral. In a post-modern society however, who didn’t see advanced AI coming?
When someone asks me a very technical question, I provide a vague and ambiguous response. I learned this habit in grad school. No one unless they are a knowledge domain expert in the field cares about the specifics. Often people ask me about AI. I say that it’s worrying for many reasons but mainly that AI demands so much energy. This is enough for them to pick up and carry the conversation. I could lecture them on many aspects of AI. But you’d have to pay for this torture. 😁