I was involved in both sides of this battle over ten years ago. Things haven't changed all that much.
It's important to note that neither side has moral legitimacy. Not everyone who carries a rifle is a enemy. Not everyone wearing body armor is a saint.
I have given up on the idea that "human vs bot" matters at all when it comes to anything other than voting (which should only be done in person with paper and pen, by the way.)
You could make an argument that "likes" are a form of voting, but you shouldn't. We need to abandon the idea of supposedly democratized algorithms and focus instead on actual democracy.
It can only deal in tokens, so you're essentially right that it creates a textual description before describing it back to you. This process is obviously incredibly lossy and details are easily missed
Most requests are reads and letting someone use an invalidated session for reads for 30 seconds on a shortlived token isn't the end of the world, especially considering that the exact invalidation timing and its propagation is already somewhat arbitrary.
For rarer privileged actions you can check a token revocation list.
It takes considerable energy to train models and run inference. You can't dismiss AI generated content as "low effort", but you can dismiss it as a wasteful diversion.
It's important to note that neither side has moral legitimacy. Not everyone who carries a rifle is a enemy. Not everyone wearing body armor is a saint.
I have given up on the idea that "human vs bot" matters at all when it comes to anything other than voting (which should only be done in person with paper and pen, by the way.)
You could make an argument that "likes" are a form of voting, but you shouldn't. We need to abandon the idea of supposedly democratized algorithms and focus instead on actual democracy.