But what does "used Gen AI" in an article mean?

Did they type "Write a news article make no mistakes?" and hit Publish

or

Did they use it to find secondary sources for a set of details to then manually go check them? Or use it for copy-editing or have a discussion with a frontier model about the best term to describe a concept (something I find them very good at!)? Or a myriad of such interventional uses.

Are those considered the same by the audience? Was the difference explained in this survey? I'm betting the audience is a lot more accepting of the latter and the former is what everyone imagines "Use Gen-AI" means and words like "mostly human generated with some AI help" don't really capture the difference OR value.

I hate to be the "there is nuance" guy, but...isn't there significant nuance here?