[Trombone12]

Indeed, if we don't care at all about "x is y" statements being true, they can be "applied" to reading.

To determine if an art student and DALL-E really are the same, despite their very obvious difference (one has arms and is part of a net of social relations while the other is intellectual property), will take some actual arguments which I presume you of course had planned to provide in a second comment from the start.

[kbelder]

A shortcut to internet debates: Count up the snarky responses on each side... the side with the lowest total is probably correct. Usually the more snark, the less substance.

Just a rule of thumb.