What motivates AI companies to automate things humans actually like doing?

I get making automation for things no one wants to do. But what’s the real motivation for making AI that can do things like art? I’m thinking of the FRIDA robot.

I’m sure money is the probably at the root of it. But even from the perspective of scientific curiosity, it seems a bit selfish for this creators to exercise their creativity and ingenuity to build things that will destroy the value of creativity for millions of others.