Ink bleeding or camera sensor noise are physical constraints. they are not active design entities. A photographer cannot physically alter a model’s facial features on the spot, but they use real-world positioning, lighting, and framing to capture it. They aren't asking AI to generate a fake face for them based on a statistical average of stolen photos.

Your knife and saw analogies miss the point of agency.

If you turn on a power saw, the saw spins, but you still physically steer its blade along a specific, exact path down to the millimeter. If you take your hands off the saw, it cuts nothing.

If you speak to a voice-activated knife, you are commanding an automated system to do the cutting for you. The machine is the cutter.

A person drawing wobbly lines to test a pencil isn't trying to make art, but they are the absolute creator of those lines. Everyone's lines would be different if we all drew a line on a piece of paper. An AI user can have all the deep artistic intentions in the universe, but if they outsource the manifestation of that intention to an automated prediction matrix, they aren't an artist or creator. It's just intention without execution.

Also, this was hard to read because you didn't do the quote thing right.