That sounds ridiculous. The double slit experiment is a small system. The detector apparatus is much larger. The world outside of that, even more so. If your view is how the universe works, the number of superpositions of states that must exist between the "magical human observer" and the experimental result must be huge. Every particle in contact with every other particle. It seems ridiculous that the entire universe must be in superposition to give humans this special property.
The "observer" here is simply an outside system.
(FWIW, we only covered the basics of quantum mechanics in my chemistry undergrad. Perhaps a physicist can explain better.)
According to your argument, a situation like Schrödinger's cat, where a Cat is both dead and alive, is completely ridiculous.
Which is a fair point. But apparently a whole lot of quantum physicists believe that Schrödinger's cat is a perfectly reasonable situation.
How do we "know" that the camera collapses the wave function? Maybe WE collapse the camera by observing IT.
That's how you get things like Schrodingers cat.