I'm not going to give these folks too many details, but there have long been ways to create convincing synthetic organic textures that predate NNs. Although I

I'm not going to give these folks too many details, but there have long been ways to create convincing synthetic organic textures that predate NNs. Although I think you're right, the market tells us that this is likely either too high-skill and/or high-labour and/or easily detected.