I’m asking the question of how we should think about the systems, and claiming “software” is very much the wrong conceptual model. Yes, AI can work poorly because of a software issue, for example, timeouts with the API, or similar. But the thing we’re interested in discussing is the AI, not the software component—and as you point out in the case of photography, the user’s skill with the software, and with everything else about taking photographs, is something that occurs and should be discussed not in terms of the software being used.
I’m asking the question of how we should think about the systems, and claiming “software” is very much the wrong conceptual model. Yes, AI can work poorly because of a software issue, for example, timeouts with the API, or similar. But the thing we’re interested in discussing is the AI, not the software component—and as you point out in the case of photography, the user’s skill with the software, and with everything else about taking photographs, is something that occurs and should be discussed not in terms of the software being used.