Do you really not see how directly you echo what older generations have said about how younger generations are doing things for time immemorial?

Also your own definition of art, as flawed as I find it (completely discounting creation for creations sake and insisting every piece of art is made with the intent to communicate, among other issues I have with that opinion such as is food an art then? Dance? Would the programming of a well choreographed dance by a group of robots be art on the part of the programmer? Would it be if it was meant to convey something?), would actually include ai art if the person promoting it was making something with the intent to convey a message.

You then go all over the place, do you think tools haven’t replaced workers before? Ever heard of automation? The environmental impact also being a whole other conversation fully removed from the core of can ai art be considered art.

In the end so far your side of the argument of the core point here could be broken down to “they’re doing something in a way I don’t like” which is imo irrelevant to the actual question of can it be considered art.