the anti and pro both go that route, not just one or the other
and both are missing is exactly what you said. Art is the ACTION of a human expression creativity in some way
and that way doesn't have to be something that's socially acceptable, nice, or anything else. but if a human - (and only humans, not cows, dogs, other animals, machines, etc) - is expressing creativity by that action, that's the human making art
It's wild how much of the pro-genAI discourse comes from people who just fundamentally don't *get* art. They think every aspect of it boils down to the final 'product.' They're incapable of understanding that what we hear, watch, and read are the process, not the outcome.