Hector Gomez

Generative models are excellent at what they've seen most and poor at the rare and specific. Which just turned visual scarcity into a competitive advantage.

Two years ago most competitions had no AI policy. Today all of them do — and where they chose to draw the line quietly amounts to a technical definition of photography.

Imperfection became proof that an image is real. The problem is that a code can be forged — and generative models are already very good at grain, flash and blur.