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

[Perch63]

A big userbase for Lightsroom (and Photoshop) are the vast community of photograpers associated to FIAP (La Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique) or PSA (Photografic Society of America).

In a newly issued breif, FIAP and PSA have stated what use of AI support allowed when particapating in photocompetitions around the word associated to theese two associations.  THis means that all theese users need to know in detail what use of LR (and PS) can discualify them in competitions.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vnvyl0jFJW8JP_tvKpFNGiESLLd5REsq/view

Prohibited are the use of:
"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."

It is intuitive that functionality like "generative fill", and other functions named "generative..:" will be covered with this, but what about AI-based "Adaptive presets".  HDR functionality, "super resolution",  "lens blur" etc.

There is a need in Adobe products to help the user to understand if the products "add external image data" in these processes. 

Is there a clear way to define this in LR and PS??
With this rapid development of Adobe products its practically impossible for an "average joe" to be able to figure this out by his/her own.

[johnrellis]

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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.

[drtonyb]

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.

[johnrellis]

As explained above, the AI masking commands are AI-assisted and incorporate external image data, but they clearly don't synthesize new pixels.  (All the AI commands incorporate external image data, since they all use models trained on thousands or millions of photos.)

Oops, I corrected the message above to exclude the masking commands from those that synthesize pixels.