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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I think every touch up besides color correction and cropping should be labeled as "photoshopped". And any usage of AI should be labeled as "Made with AI" because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.

Besides, this is totally a skill issue. Removing this metadata is trivial.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Cropping can completely change the context of a photo.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

A lot of photographers will take a photo with the intention of cropping it. Cropping isn’t photoshopping.

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[–] IIII@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Sure But you could also achieve a similar effect in-camera by zooming in or moving closer to the subject

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why label it if it is trivial to avoid the label?

Doesn't that mean that bad actors will have additional cover for misise of AI?

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Some of the more advanced color correction tools can drastically change an image. There’s a lot of gray in that line as well.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

DOD Imagery guidelines state that only color correction can be applied to "make the image appear the same as it was when it was captured" otherwise it must be labeled "DOD illustration" instead of "DOD Imagery"

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[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's the difference between "by" and "with".

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

People have a hard time with nuance.

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Artists in 2023: "There should be labels on AI modified art!!"

Artists in 2024: "Wait, not like that..."

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like these are two completely different sets of artists.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

no, they just replaced the normal tools with ai-enhanced versions and are labeling everything like that now.

ai noise reduction should not get this tag.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 4 months ago

I don't know where you got they from, but this post literally talks about tools such as the gen fill (select a region, type what you want in it, AI image generation makes it and places it in)

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a photographer I'm a bit torn on this one.

I believe AI art should definitely be labeled to minimize people being mislead about the source of the art. But at the same time the OP on the Adobe forums post did say they used it as any other tool for touching up and fixing inconsistencies.

If I were to for example arrange a photoshoot with a model and they happened to have a zit that day on their forehead of course I'm gonna edit that out. Or if I happened to have an assistant with me that got in the shot but I don't want to crop in making the background and feel of the photo tighter I would gladly remove that too. Sure Adobe already has the patch, clone and even magic eraser tool (Which also uses AI, that might or might not mark photos) to do these fix-ups but if I can use AI, that I hope is trained on data they're actually allowed to train on, I think I would prefer that because if I'm gonna spend 10 to 30 minutes fixing blemishes, zits and what not I'd much prefer to use the AI tools to get my job done quicker.

If the tools were however used to rigorously change, modify and edit the scene and subject then for sure, it might be best to add that.

Wouldn't it be better to not discourage the use of editing tools when those tools are used in a way that just makes one's job quicker? If I were to use Lightrooms subject quick selection, should it be slapped on then? Or if I were to use an editing preset created with AI that automatically adjusts the basic settings of an image and further my editing from that, should the label be created then? Or if I have a flat white background with some tapestry pattern and don't want to spend hours getting the alignment of the pattern just right as I try to fix a minor aspect ratio issue or want to get just a bit more breathing room on the subject and I use the mentioned AI tool in the OP.

Things OP mentioned in his post and the scenarios I mentioned are all things you can do without AI anyways it just takes a lot longer sometimes, there's no cheating in using the right tool for the right job IMO. I don't think it's too far off from someone who makes sculptures in clay uses an ice scream scoop with ridges to create texture or a Dremel to touch up and fix corners. Or a painter using different tools and brushes and scrapers to finish their painting.

Perhaps a better idea would be if we want to make the labels "fair" there should also be a label that the photo has been manipulated by a program in general or maybe add a percentage indicator to see how much of it has been edited specifically with AI. Slapping an "AI" label on someone because they decided to get equal results by using another tool to do normal touch-ups to a photo could potentially be damaging to ones career and credibility when it doesn't say how much of it was AI or in what reach, because now there's the chance someone might be looking for their next wedding photographer and be discouraged because of the bad rep regarding AI.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

trained on data they're actually allowed to train on

That’s the ticket. For touchups, certainly, that’s the key: did theft help, or not?

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Indeed, if the AI was trained based on theft it's neither right on their part or ethical on mine.

I did some searching but sadly don't have time to look into it more but there were some concerning articles that would suggest they have either used shady practices to get their training data or users having to manually check an opt out box in the app settings.

I can't make an opinion on it right now before looking into it more but my core argument about using AI itself in this manner, even if that data was your own on your own trained AI using allowed resources, I still believe somewhat holds.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm not sure of the complaint, is the tag not accurate? If you use AI to make something are you not making it with ai? Like if I use strawberry to make a cake would the tag made with strawberries be inaccurate?

Like I failed to see the argument, if you don't want to be labeled as something accurate don't use it otherwise deal with it.

[–] efstajas@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months 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.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

Would all my photos taking on a pixel or iPhone have this label then?

[–] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The complaint the photographer is making is that it's an actual photograph 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 or unwanted objects etc.

Removing flaws and objects at least is a task that predates modern computers - people changed the actual negatives - and tools to do it have improved so much 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.

[–] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

The biggest use of AI in my editing flow is masking. I can spend half an hour selecting all the edges of a person as well as I can, or I can click the button to select people. Either way I do the rest of my edits as normal.

[–] IIII@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for people to deliberately add the metadata to their image as a meme, such that a legit photograph without any AI used gets the unremovable made with ai tag

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Generative fill on a dummy layer, then apply 0% opacity

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The image looks like OP cherry picked some replies in the original thread. I wonder how many artists still want AI assisted art to be flagged as such.

EDIT The source is also linked under the images. They did leave out all the comments in favour of including AI metadata, but naturally they're there in the source linked under the images.

[–] parody@lemmings.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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Absolutely cherry picked. Let us know if you peruse the source:

Without cherry picking… imagine these will be resized to the point of illegibility:

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It's unreasonable to make them illegible for no good reason; you could've included them as-is, possibly in multiple, smaller images. It's also far more common to just share a link rather than an image post, as we'll have to see the link anyway.
I didn't see the source, though, I've updated my comment for that.

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[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

We've been able to do this for years, way before the fill tool utilized AI. I don't see why it should be slapped with a label that makes it sound like the whole image was generated by AI.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

or... don't use generative fill. if all you did was remove something, regular methods do more than enough. with generative fill you can just select a part and say now add a polar bear. there's no way of knowing how much has changed.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

there's a lot more than generative fill.

ai denoise, ai masking, ai image recognition and sorting.

hell, every phone is using some kind of "ai enhanced" noise reduction by default these days. these are just better versions of existing tools than have been used for decades.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

the post says gen fill

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I disagree with their complaints. If AI was used in any way, it should be labelled as such, no matter how small the adjustments were.

So... Smart lasso tool?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What is the point of the label at all?

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To appease the artists worried about "fake" art somehow replacing the "real"art, while the big social somehow profits. They just didn't think leopards would eat THEIR faces...

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

You aren't wrong. It's entirely about status and needing to stigmatize, penalize and limit "fake" art because the artists in question are worried it will cut into the work available to them in the form of things like commissions.

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