Dave Lee, Columnist

Is It Real or Is It AI? For Photographers, It’s Nebulous

The labeling of images as created by machine instead of by humans can seem arbitrary and misleading. 

The final image.

Photographer: Matt Suess

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On the internet, some questions are easy to answer. “Is it cake?” — slice through it with a knife. “Will it blend?” — stick it in a machine and find out.

But: “Is this AI?” That’s a harder one.