What Lightroom functionality uses generative AI?( Causing a disqualification in an int, photo comp.)

I don't see how Masks using AI, such as Sky, Object, Subject, etc., can be included in this. These are masks, there is clearly no Incorporated external image data or Synthetic image generation.

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"any AI-assisted processes for synthetic image generation that incorporate external image data, visual elements, textures, objects, or scenes not originally present in the authors photograph are prohibited."

Interesting. I agree it's unreasonable to expect photographers to interpret this imprecise statement.  I also think it's unreasonable to expect Adobe to provide interpretations of a third-party requirement. Rather, given the widespread use of LR and PS, it's incumbent on FIAP and PSA to say more clearly what they mean by listing the particular LR and PS commands that are prohibited.

Perhaps you and other colleagues should assemble a list of all the LR and PS AI commands and ask the organizations for their interpretation.

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To see why the statement is impossible to interpret accurately, a close reading shows there are three elements to what's prohibited:

1. AI-assisted

2. incorporate external image data, visual elements, textures, objects, or scenes not originally present in the authors photograph

3. synthetic image generation

LR's AI commands include Remove > Generative AI Remove, Remove > Reflections removal, Remove > People removal, Denoise, Raw Details, Super Resolution, Lens Blur, and AI masking (Sky, Subject, Background, Landscape, People).   To evaluate them using the three criteria: 

1. AI-assisted: All of the AI commands are clearly AI-assisted.

2. Incorporate external image data: All of the AI commands are trained on thousands, if not millions, of photos.  The resulting AI models, by definition, incorporate the external image data on which they were trained, and those photos manipulated by the commands thus incorporate that external image data.

3. Synthetic image generation: Some of the AI commands pretty clearly "synthesize" new pixels using AI models to generate the new pixels: Generative AI Remove, People removal, Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution.  But would the organizations think that Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution are "synthesizing" the pixels?  I have no idea.

Reflection removal and Lens Blur use AI models to identify the pixels that should be manipulated but use relatively simple, older, non-AI algorithms on the identified pixels to generate replacements. Would the organizations think this constitutes "synthetic" generation?  I have no idea.