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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How can something be artificial if everything is made from naturally occurring elements?
gpt
It's essentially a convenient term for indicating a specific group, ala "Stuff made in a lab" vs "stuff we found in the ground, or a plant."

Certainly, one can argue it does not really hold to the 'spirit' of the definition of "stuff in nature" any more than 'organic potatoes' are any more organic than regular potatoes. 

But language doesn't care about such niceties. People adapt the word for a particular use for marketing, or convenience, or ignorance, etc, and sometimes it takes off, regardless of its applicability.