If it was intentional, they wouldn't be as shy about admitting it. But as far as your "correction" goes, even if the anti-genAI overtones at its inception are

If it was intentional, they wouldn't be as shy about admitting it. But as far as your "correction" goes, even if the anti-genAI overtones at its inception are a coincidence, it wouldn't be too crazy for someone making related art today to play up the coincidence anyway. So I think your original idea was still a reasonable guess.