aren't they?

Normally in other fields of endeavor if we can differentiate between two ways a thing was made we are thus able to split individual things into two potential sets and place them accordingly. I realize that "developers" may wish to have the two categories commingled for their own purposes but I think they should just get over themselves and realize that you can't fight the natural human tendency to separate things into groups for identifying potential differences between them.

I don’t think it’s that and I think you know that; this article had a clear agenda. There is an obvious implication that AI-made means “worse”. As a Software Engineer of 13 years and someone who makes things with AI in their spare time, I hold both to the same standard of quality. To most people it shouldn’t matter who made it, while devs have been spinning the “AI-slop” trope. At some point people are going to have to get over it.