“There are 3 main categories of images that look like undoctored photographs but are not”
1. Doctored photos — This category covers all photos, past and present, that have been doctored (whether in the darkroom, on a smartphone, or on a computer) without adding AI-generated content (AI-GC).
2. “Aigmented” photos — These are camera- or smartphone-created photos that are augmented with the addition of AI-generated items that were not in the scene at the moment the picture was taken.
3. Photo-like AI-generated images (“plaigis”) — These are images that look like photographs but are created entirely using AI, without the use of a camera.
Numerous other kinds of images meet the description at the top of this page — e.g., photorealistic artworks, screenshots of non-TTG images, etc. — but none of them approach the scale of the three categories described above.
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