The backlash against AI art isn't really about whether machines should or shouldn't make art. It's that the humans making art are being priced out of their own livelihoods. If artists could afford to keep creating without selling their work, without commodifying their creative labor and competing with AI on cost of production, a lot of the outrage would dissipate. Commoditization is a cost-structure problem. Human art is expensive to produce: years of training, hours per piece, materials, rent. AI produces a plausible substitute at near-zero marginal cost. Once creative output becomes a commodity, buyers compare on price, and human work can't win that comparison. No matter how many clichés there are about rich kids striving to be artists, all they really show is how incompatible art is with capitalism. The trust-fund artist is what art looks like when it doesn't have to pay for itself.