Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”?

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I think every touch up besides color correction and cropping should be labeled as "photoshopped". And any usage of AI should be labeled as "Made with AI" because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.

Besides, this is totally a skill issue. Removing this metadata is trivial.

Some of the more advanced color correction tools can drastically change an image. There’s a lot of gray in that line as well.

DOD Imagery guidelines state that only color correction can be applied to "make the image appear the same as it was when it was captured" otherwise it must be labeled "DOD illustration" instead of "DOD Imagery"

Cropping can completely change the context of a photo.

Sure But you could also achieve a similar effect in-camera by zooming in or moving closer to the subject

A lot of photographers will take a photo with the intention of cropping it. Cropping isn’t photoshopping.

If I open an image in Photoshop and crop it, it's photoshopping.

You don’t have to open photoshop to do it. Any basic editing software will include a cropping tool.

So we agree cropping is plain and simple image editing, yes?

Yes. I think the question was should it be labeled as “photoshopped” (or probably “manipulated”). I don’t think it should. I think those labels would be meaningless if you can’t event change the aspect ratio of a photo without it being called “photoshopped”.

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There are absolutely different levels of image editing. Color correction, cropping, scale, and rotation are basic enough that I would say they don’t even count as alterations. They’re just correcting what the camera didn’t, and often available in the camera's built in software. (Fun fact, what the sensor sees is not what it presents you in a jpeg.) Then there are more deceptive levels of editing, like removing or adding objects, altering someone’s appearance, swapping faces from different shots. Those are definitely image alterations, and what most people mean when they say an image is “photoshopped” (and you know that, don’t lie). Then there’s AI, where you’re just generating new information to put into the image. That’s extreme image alteration.

These all can be done with or without any sort of nefarious intent.

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Agreed. Photo editing has great applications but we can't pretend it's never used maliciously.

Film too, any trickery in the darkroom should be labeled because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.

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