Photographers and AI designers alike...

A scan from a transparency,

I was going to bring that issue up in my post. In the past, we've been saying that a photograph should be labeled as AI only if something new has been added. Using generative fill to fix an issue or to make a minor change in a photograph, or using generative expand, has not required a photo to be labeled as AI. But here the line starts to blur quite a bit. Myself, I only submit AI, so it's not an issue for me. I lost my model releases years ago after numerous moves from one place to another, so I couldn't submit most of my photos even if I wanted to. Also, while I did post within the context of a contributor forum, it was more an FYI for photographers in general, not specifically contributors. Out of curiosity, I did run one of the examples through what I have found to be a very accurate AI detector, and it was not found to be AI generated. But yes, care must be taken with such submissions.  Does giving a model in a photograph a smile with gen fill make it AI, compared, say, to moving a model's hands to an entirely new position with an external application?  I guess what it boils down to is, when in doubt, tag it as AI.