First, I'd like to share an interesting article that I found in my email in-box today: https://glyndewis.com/blog/mobile-photography-controversy
Second, I'd like to refer you to what we have to say, in our club's rules of competition, about the use of AI in any photos you enter:
What About Artificial Intelligence?
An increasing number of photo-editing tools are now powered by what is known as artificial intelligence. While many of these tools do little more than make earlier methods of editing faster, easier, and more effective, they can also add major components to photos or even create entire original photos, with just a few prompts by the user.
AI is rapidly advancing, and there’s no way to know what will be coming our way. However, our overall guidance on the use of AI in photos being entered into our competitions is as follows:
- In the Assigned category, you can use AI tools only to help you accomplish what is already allowed in the rules listed above.
- In the Open category, you can be more liberal with the use of AI tools, but please remember that any significant components added to a composition must be of your own creation, not something generated by prompts to AI. For example, you may add a horse to a meadow, but the horse must be taken from one of your own photos and not be one generated by prompting AI.
And third, I'd like to remind everyone who enters our competitions to read (or re-read) the entire "Rules of Competition" on the club's website (cvillecameraclub.org). Over the years, we've depended on the "honor system" regarding our rules, and thank you all for making that possible! :-)
Gerry
