Prestigious photo contest answers ‘what is a photo?’
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TL;DR
- The World Press Photo competition has established rules to define authentic photography in the age of AI.
- AI-generated images are explicitly not considered photography by the organization.
- Photographs must be captured with a camera and cannot be synthetically generated.
- Post-production use of generative fill is forbidden.
- Smartphone photos are allowed only in standard shooting mode, excluding modes like HDR or portrait.
- AI enhancement tools are permissible if they do not significantly alter, add, or remove information from the original image.
- AI-powered enlarging tools like Adobe Super Resolution are banned.
- Minor AI tools for denoising or automatic adjustments are allowed if not used extensively and do not change captured information.