Good points. As you point out, it depends on the community. Photojournalism and nature photography have much higher standards for what is acceptable than advert

Good points. As you point out, it depends on the community. Photojournalism and nature photography have much higher standards for what is acceptable than advertising or personal photographs and artistic photographer is different again. I remember when Galen Rowell burned a hole in a slide with a loupe and had to write an apology for fixing it digitally. And you could make that analogy for writing too. For creative writing, knock yourself out (though there is already a raging debate on this topic), but for scientific writing you need to be more careful. If I was going to extend the photo journalism example to papers, then there is a difference between using AI to change the data (change the sky) than as a grammar checker (fix the white balance).