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The 2023 entry information requires entrants to take images themselves with a camera and excludes AI-generated images and generative additions. The creative category permits composites of entrants' own photographs, but not AI imagery.
What changed
The 2023 entry information requires entrants to take images themselves with a camera and excludes AI-generated images and generative additions. The creative category permits composites of entrants' own photographs, but not AI imagery.
2023 is the competition edition, not a verified initial rule-issuance date. The current page for an old edition is not a historical snapshot. Ordinary sharpening, noise reduction and limited retouching are separately allowed; this is not a ban on all software or all AI.
Editorial research question
Editorial interpretation: a photography competition distinguishes freedom in digital compositing from generative AI through requirements on source material; even the creative category retains the entrant's own photography requirement.
This is an editorial interpretation or question, separate from factual statements.
Evidence & sources
The 2023 entry information requires entrants to take images themselves with a camera and excludes AI-generated images and generative additions. The creative category permits composites of entrants' own photographs, but not AI imagery.
SRC-0230Lines 23–74 and 120–127: edition, geographical eligibility, AI and editing restrictions. Other sections were not checked clause by clause.
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