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Inspiring
October 3, 2026
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AI or not?

I am really getting disgusted by this AI stuff. Just for fun, I put this image that I took with my camera today. I physically, in Photoshop, removed the pictures in the background. Nothing else was touched in this photo. I put it into three AI programs. One came back absolutely AI. The other two came back, not AI. What can we do about this? This is a real picture. No AI tools were used at all. How are the inspectors going to know when an image is real? Especially if it goes through a generator. 

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      Ricky336
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      Ricky336Community Expert
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      October 7, 2026

      Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, AI will evolve into a new silicon-based life form and will decide that carbon-based life forms are not real and fake, and the silicon species are real! 😊

      In the meantime, perhaps any alteration - removing stuff for example, maybe should be labelled as AI. 🤔

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      jodij28273193
      jodij28273193Author
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      October 7, 2026

      I will not mark a picture as AI when I use the Photoshop paintbrush with no AI feature. The picture was accepted yesterday.  

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      Nancy OShea
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      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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      October 6, 2026

      Didn’t you previously submit this same pooch to Stock as GenAI?   

      I mention this because you’re trying to have it both ways which is apt to create confusion. 

       

       

       

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      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      jodij28273193
      jodij28273193Author
      Inspiring
      October 6, 2026

      The other one was AI-altered. I was told if you use any AI tools to alter a photograph, it has to go in as AI, so that's why I put it in as AI.  This is a genuine picture with my camera of my dog. The shop owner and groomer were standing there while I was taking the picture with my camera. I know this is a special-looking dog, but she is not made up. Why is this so difficult to believe she is real? All I did to this picture was put it in Photoshop and take the paintbrush and remove the pictures off the wall. The Photoshop paintbrush is not an AI tool, and she is not an AI dog. 

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      Nancy OShea
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      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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      October 6, 2026

      Look, Adobe doesn’t know what’s real or not. How could they?

      Did you submit a property release form signed by you as the dog’s owner? 

       

       

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      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      jodij28273193
      jodij28273193Author
      Inspiring
      October 6, 2026

      I use it for work. I know my image was real, but I wanted to see what AI would say. My AI said it wasn't real. The other person in the thread's AI said it was real, and the inspector turned it down for no flag for AI. It came right out of the camera. This whole thing is becoming a joke. 

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      jodij28273193
      jodij28273193Author
      Inspiring
      October 4, 2026

      I found the name of the site. It is called AI or Not. I, personally, will never use it again. 

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      RALPH_L
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      RALPH_LCommunity Expert
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      October 4, 2026

      My portfolio, that contains no AI generated content, was deactivated because assets were not declared as AI-generated. Good luck!

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        daniellei4510
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        daniellei4510Community Expert
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        October 4, 2026

        The best way to test AI detectors is to first of all run an unedited photograph through the process on a variety of detectors. Any detector that suggests it is AI should no longer be trusted. Then start making some edits using AI tools such as Generative Expand or Remove and test each AI detector again and note the results. Finally, actually add a number of new objects into the image or replace objects with other objects and test again. Some of the better AI detectors will provide results that give a percentage of how much AI was used (such as 10%) or even suggest which AI models may have been used. And always remember: AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, not Actual Intelligence. It is capable of getting everything wrong. 

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        Adobe Community Expert | I have miles to go before I sleep, but I'm all done on this end.
        jodij28273193
        jodij28273193Author
        Inspiring
        October 4, 2026

        I used the Photoshop paintbrush. There is nothing AI about that tool. Plus, I did put the original in, and it still said it was AI. I have to find the name of the site so I can put it up. 

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        Nancy OShea
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        Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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        October 4, 2026

        Which removal method did you use in Photoshop?  I ask because they’re not equal. Some tools use AI and others don’t. 

        I typically use the Spot Healing Brush or Patch Tool (no AI). 

         

        I second ​@daniellei4510’s advice on SiteEngine. It’s the AI detection tool I use, too. 

        AI image detector. Detect AI-generated media at scale

         

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        Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
        daniellei4510
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        daniellei4510Community Expert
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        October 4, 2026

        While I believe it’s one of the best, even then it’s not perfect. It may have been improved since, but about three years ago a contributor asked why an image had been rejected. It was an AI generated image of a car accident that had been correctly tagged as AI. Since SiteEngine claims that one of their purposes is to detect fraudulent accident claims, I ran the contributor’s asset through SiteEngine to test. It said it was 100% NOT AI generated. So it can be fooled, and I suspect it will be awhile before AI detectors can be used as evidence in courts, any more so than lie detector results.  

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          Jill_C
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          Jill_CCommunity Expert
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          October 4, 2026

          If you used the Photoshop Remove Tool, it’s possible that AI was used in the removal process.

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          Jill C., Forum Volunteer
          jodij28273193
          jodij28273193Author
          Inspiring
          October 4, 2026

          I used the paintbrush to brush out the photographs on the wall. Absolutely no AI was used. In addition, I put the original, untouched photograph in, and it said it was AI. I can't remember the name of the site, but ChatGPT gave it to me. The other two said it was 4% AI. Nothing said it was a real photograph. 

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          daniellei4510
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          daniellei4510Community Expert
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          October 3, 2026

          Most AI detectors are very undependable. I use sight engine.com, which I’ve found to be correct 99% of the time. I ran your image through and it was found to be 0% AI generated. As far as what Adobe uses, if anything, I don’t know. 

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            jodij28273193
            jodij28273193Author
            Inspiring
            October 4, 2026

            Thank you very much for doing that. 

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