The complaint the photographer is making is that it’s an actual image where a small portion is made or changed with AI.
They list expanding the edges of the image to change the aspect ratio and removing flaws, unwanted objects etc.
Removing flaws and objects at least is a task that predates computers - people changed the actual negatives, and tools to do it have improved that a computer can basically do it all for you.
I think people should just say how they modified the image - AI or not - since airbrushed skin, artificial slimming, and such have been common complaints before AI manipulation, and AI just makes those same problematic things easier.
efstajas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I do think it’s a problem when 100% of people seeing “made with AI” will assume the entire thing is AI-generated, even if all you did was use AI for a minor touch-up. If it’s really that trigger happy right now, I think it’d make sense for it to be dialled down a bit.