This is an astute observation. I think it reflects a larger and longer-running strain in the relationship between technocracy and the humanities, though, of which this latest iteration is just even more choleric and rote. The plumbers of capitalism always seem to have had deep contempt for the arts and the humanities, not in the least because they didn't do too well at them in school or didn't understand how philosophy relates to making money, or something.

This has led to some rather fantastical conclusions on both sides, however. On one side, there's an almost sadistic "revenge of the nerds" glee at the notion that these airy-fairy, frou-frou, and "feminised" liberal arts majors will finally crumble before the stochastic parrot machine god, and on the other side, a no less comical notion that after "AI" ushers in utopia, then high-brow artistic and literary pursuits will be all that remains for us to do.