Where is the line, and how do we know it?
If a picture is taken, then processed/edited: at what point is it no longer real? The low hanging fruit is the stereotypical "shopped" photo, it isn't a "real" picture anymore but it wasn't generated. But what about generative fills? Or generated objects added? etc. etc.
This all started because I was running through realornotquiz.com and was given a picture that is in an article with the description "The entrance to the governor's office at the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton"
So I declared it was a "real" photo, and the quiz told me I was wrong. And I honestly don't know if I was or not.
And that got me spiraling into "at what point is a real image no longer a real image", whatever that means. I got twisted in knots and needed to come here. What say you?
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