606. Why not just make a label that says “Free of AI-GC”?

Because it would not be helpful to viewers.

AI-GC is just one of countless ways of making images untrustworthy.

There are so many ways to make images untrustworthy that it’s impossible to list them all—

— and it is even easy to make highly deceptive images that are completely undoctored (see #914).

Saying “Free of AI-GC” isn't enough

Not one of the major “manipulation” controversies of digital photography’s first 40 years involved AI-GC, so saying an image is “free of AI-GC” is no reassurance that it is trustworthy.

A photo could be “free of AI-GC” and yet still lacking all of the 9 characteristics of the world’s most-widely trusted photographs.

From the TTG point of view, AI-GC is “just the newest way” of depicting something other than what the camera lens saw at the moment the picture was taken.