yes, sadly, as AI disclosure is here now, everything becomes "AI generated" if you just used a bit. That's exactly what is asked when you upload.
On Stem they let you explain exactly how AI is used. That works for people that are rational, modern, and live in 2025. But for the "vegan mindset" as you said, it's exactly the same: "AI generated". We could talk about "Photoshop generated" or "filter generated", or "intellisense generated",or a lot more, if we applied the same criteria.
On the other side, many who use AI, specially on art, are not honest, and tend to say "I draw it" or "I painted", when they actually didn't at all, nor even partially.
One can notice very easily: AI tends to produce standardized outputs, and when people don't create their own styles or concepts, or just put the raw output you find:
- On images, they all look the same author (this happens without AI too, actually), as if they all were made by the same person. No personal style at all
- On code, it does very conventional apps and games.
- On sound and music, does strange stops and incoherence.
And so on. Actually people can notice when something is fruit from a personal style and intervention and when it's not. Those who can't, will be able to notice in a few years.
But the amount of people that don't want any AI at all, will never accept it. And the tag is for those people, so they can keep their activity isolated from the games made with AI, specially on art.
I use AI at my art, with a lot of customization and intervention in manual way, but I marked the tag anyway, as I honestly also don't want that kind of public anyway. For an extended explanation they can go to my site, and read the About, or just play the game, watch it, etc.
I recommend any person that uses AI to use the tag. They will save a lot of headaches. Those people will live in their world isolated from the major tendency for the years to come. Also, if you don't make manga it's easier, because that is the only style that most of them like. Some like more things, but the majority doesn't. Probably this is this way because the first generators focused on manga (Waifu Diffusion).
When in one or two years all is made using AI as we use Photoshop, or Blender, everyone will be ok with it.
The best vaccine to not be against AI and stop fearing it is to use it. You quickly will see the limitations. The crap it produces is massive. Then you start to see the good results it can make if you put intervention in it, or mix it with more things. Mix also coding with your brain, generative art with drawing and painting, composing with small parts of music (I suppose). Then you see that a human is always needed, and the fear stops, unless you want to produce massive amounts of crap (as sadly many do, but I think it's because it's something new).