I don’t think the method of producing the fake is important in terms of court rulings.

It kinda is though, if the network is trained on the source material itself. For example if I take the source material and move a few pixels, is that still the source material? What if I flip the video, which is technically moving every single pixel, that's still the a copyright issue even if the video is mirrored. The network is basically taking the pixels of the original content, learning from it, and creating a filtered version.

I think you misunderstood my point. I meant that it doesn’t matter if someone modified it by hand or if it was done using a neural network.

I didn't say it was, I simply corrected the definition of a word.