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So your understanding of the law is that any use of the inpainting tool in modern versions of Photoshop makes the image impossible to copyright? Heck, even the magic-wand select is using AI to fine tune its behavior.

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Not the entire image, but parts created by inpainting. Which is admittedly a hot mess of red tape in potentia. But it makes sense from the point of view of copyright having been created to protect people's ability to make a living from IP.

The magic wand is different IMO, because it's not creating any imagery.

If you use the magic wand, and then do anything with the selection mask - cropping, changing hue, etc. - then you're creating imagery with AI.

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