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Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers (techcrunch.com)

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Photographers say the social media giant is applying a ‘Made with AI’ label to photos they took, causing confusion for users.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Sure, but photos altered with AI is not the point of the article. In the article a photographer said that he suspects that the cropping/flattening tool he used somehow used AI, and therefore the AI metadata was included in the picture.

So, while the action using AI is "technically correct," the photographer simply wanted to crop his picture; something that has been possible for decades without AI. He wasn't aware of AI being used. And now Facebook includes the tag because of the AI over-engineered bullshit.

Personally, I don't place all the blame on Facebook. They're simply reading the metadata, and if the metadata says "yo, we used AI," then welp, it gets the label. So, the editing tools are also to blame here.

I guess now I know. Before uploading a photo to Facebook/Instagram/whatever, I'll make sure to remove the exif metadata.