The platforms that were supposed to host debate about AI's effect on creative labor are now the primary distribution channels for AI-generated creative output. This is not incidental overlap — it is a structural replacement of one kind of activity with another that wears the same label. A Reddit post tagged "Digital, 2026" [3] and a Bluesky account posting AI-generated characters [2] both register inside the same taxonomic buckets that track human creative community engagement. What gets counted as "the AI and art conversation" now includes, at scale, the AI…