What extent of AI processing should be allowed in club competitions?
While some level of AI has increasingly been used to enhance images, the extent and capabilities of AI to change images and add content has exploded in the past few months.
Initially AI was limited to use in replacing a small portion of an image with something that looked similar. This was often used to remove a distracting element from an image. More recently, the ability to replace entire skies has been available with just a couple of mouse clicks.
All this was a lot of fun but didn’t really impact the world of photography competitions until mid May 2023 when Adobe released “Generative Fill” in the publicly beta version of Photoshop. Suddenly anyone with Photoshop could download the latest beta version and use generative AI techniques to drastically change their images.
Where is all this heading. Probably the best indication is looking at where it all started…with AI art generators. The current favourite is MidJourney. For anyone only used to downloading and running apps, getting started is a bit more technical, but it’s not that hard: …
In the background, a number of companies have been developing AIs that would generate images in the style of famous artists or photographers. MidJourney is the current favourite:
How to mimic camera settings in MidJourney
MidLibrary – a catalogue of famous photographers that MidJourney recognises
