But if trickery is the game, you’ve already lost. If the idea is, “See, you didn’t have a problem with it when you thought it wasn’t AI but when you found out it was you no longer liked it, thus you are a hypocrite!” they’re just revealing a shallow interpretation of how and why we consume media, as if we’re just moths attracted to flame (whether it’s a tiki torch or a bug zapper) instead of humans who use all sorts of assumptions about context and provenance to navigate the world around us. If I ate something and it tasted like a strawberry and then someone said “actually, that was horseshit that was modified to taste like a strawberry“ I would gag after the reveal, not just say, “oh ok, you got me, turns out I want to eat horseshit now that it can taste like strawberries.”