Comment by fasbiner
Everything you see on your screen was created in part by a computer model, this seems like a way to be rude and dismissive as some kind of status game.
Because you can't actually tell the difference, reliably, for the rest of your life.
You will never know if that detail was borrowed directly from a human hand without alteration, generated and composed, or added with the flourish of a digital pen or brush, or modified via very specific prompt, or edited with photoshop, or edited by an AI agent using photoshop, or a tiny grease stain, a weird compression artifact that ended up looking cool, etc.
You're a fraud if you say that you can reliably know absent of context, and you grasp for metaphysical assertions because you're a fraud.
Eh? I never said I could detect the machine. Only that I would prefer it wasn’t used. I would also prefer not to read a ghostwritten book, even if I would never know it was ghostwritten. The possibility of never knowing something doesn’t mean there’s nothing there to know.
As for the other types of machine help eg photoshop. Yes, it’s an interesting question where to draw the line. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t one. There are lots of areas of human life where the boundary isn’t neat. That doesn’t mean there is no boundary.