Our interpretation at the college is AI is okay as long as all the bits and pieces are all yours. Even Ansel Adams and all the old guys back-in-the-day were dodging and burning their images heavily in the darkroom. Manipulation is nothing new.
We have a local art studio that has done several "prestigious" juried shows a year for the last few decades... They were very stringent on different categories with regard to manipulation, even requiring the original negatives, and then original RAW files... Entries in those categories dropped off to the point that they dropped the category...and even their entries for that show have dropped to a fraction of what it was...