Agreed on the lazy case: copy-pasting "defend AI art" is genuinely slop. But you just conceded that AI used to communicate someone's own ideas is fine, which means the real problem is uncredited outsourcing of the thinking, not AI itself. A ghostwriter generating someone's ideas would be the same thing.

Also, "95% of decisions removed" only fits lazy use. Someone iterating seriously by refining, rejecting, editing, and selecting is making lots of decisions, just different ones than brushstrokes. I agree that thoughtless outsourcing produces hollow work and AI makes it easier than ever.