There's a difference between an unbiased (roughly speaking) pipeline and what (for example) JBIG2 did. The latter counts as "editing" and "fake" as far as I'm concerned. It may not be a crime but at least personally I think it's inherently dishonest to attempt to play such things off as "original".

And then there's all the nonsense BigTech enables out of the box today with automated AI touch ups. That definitely qualifies as fakery although the end result may be visually pleasing and some people might find it desirable.