That depends: Once viewers know that an image isn’t TTG, will they care how it was made?

The lines of distinction are still reasonably clear between the three categories of non-TTG images described in FAQ #114 (doctored, aigmented, and plaigi).

But AI-GC has already made its way into smartphone apps — and into photo-editing programs like Photoshop — and non-TTG photographers are enthusiastically making AI-generated changes to their photos.

If most of the public truly doesn’t care which tools are used to disqualify an image from TTG...

. . . then the lines between the three non-TTG categories in FAQ #114 will blur and then disappear—

—at which point the only useful distinction could be between “TTG” vs. “non-TTG” images. Time will tell.