Anthropocentric Bias
The phenomenon where humans inherently overvalue things simply because a human made them—or demand more human control over AI media—is called the anthropocentric bias.
Related is The Labor Illusion (Effort Justification) - a cognitive bias where humans equate visible effort with quality and value - and the The IKEA Effect - a behavioral economic principle where consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created or assembled themselves.
All coupled with Algorithm Aversion - The documented tendency for humans to deeply mistrust and over-scrutinise automated systems, even when those systems demonstrably outperform human capabilities.
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