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“We do not view AI-generated images as photographs” – photo contest experts talk AI, and the steps they're taking to spot fake photos

AI generated flamingos on real travel images taken by photographer Ben Brain.

Photographers and artists have been fudging, faking, manipulating, and tinkering with photographs since the invention of photography.

Take Camille Silvy's image titled The Streets of London which was made in 1859, only a few decades after the invention of photography and 132 years before Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released, and was made by combining four separate negatives. 

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