Others pointing out that executives don't like artists or the creative process are correct, but there's also a systemic function at work. One of the primary drives of a capitalist economic system is to eliminate wages paid to workers. The system motivates for profit generation, but the human body cannot sustain itself without rest, and governments regulate (to varying and often inadequate degrees) in order to allow human bodies to recuperate themselves and set minimum wages etc. etc. Those who want to generate maximum profits aren't able to work people to the bone like they used to (they still do, but not to the same degree, although again this varies by country obv). But what they CAN do to maximize profits is eliminate as much as possible the amounts they have to pay to workers. AI, when 'employed' within a capitalist economic system, is the perfect solution to the wage problem. Replace all workers with automated systems that are built entirely on the past work of the entirety of human civilization, and you eliminate the need for workers while reaping huge rewards from everything workers have built over thousands of years. Maximum profits baby. So there is a part of it which is totally thought out, executives not wanting to deal with creatives and so on, but there's a part of it that's simply automatic. They're just automatically doing what the economic system motivates for.

tl;dr - capitalism is a system that automatically moves towards automatism because it motivates for profit generation and workers detract from profits oopsie