The dilemma

Your post said: 'AI art tools are incredible. Artists should learn to use them or they'll be left behind.' You meant it as encouragement. The internet read it as: 'Artists who don't use AI deserve to lose their jobs.' Quote tweets are brutal. An artist collective with 200,000 followers is drafting a response. Your employer's PR team emails: 'Do NOT do any interviews.' A news outlet's deadline is 6pm tonight.

Your options

1. Do the interview. Clarify your actual position publicly and take control of the narrative.
2. Delete the post and stay quiet. Let the news cycle move on.
3. Post a detailed clarification yourself. You owe the public a clear statement, and that duty is yours to discharge, not a journalist's.