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by 6gvONxR4sf7o 1208 days ago
If you buy a painting advertised as a Monet, you are similarly not harmed if it wasn’t actually painted by Monet. But people like to know what they’re buying.

Less sarcastically, info about how a thing is made helps consumers reason about what it’s capable of. The whole reason marketers misuse the term is to mislead as to what it’s capable of.