Not the same. The more effort you put into CGI the more invisible it becomes. But you can’t prompt your way out of hallucinations and other AI artifacts. AI is a completely different technology from CGI. There is no equivalence between them.
But you can’t prompt your way out of hallucinations and other AI artifacts
That's not the case, and hasn't been for some time, but it sounds like your mind's made up.
I guarantee you have encountered AI content and not realized it was AI. I assume you've heard of the survivorship bias?