Is AI Killing Photography Competitions or Just Changing Them

[Mike]

The Sony World Photography Awards disqualification controversy a few years back opened a can of worms the competition world has not finished dealing with. Entrants are now submitting AI-generated images to competitions designed for photography, sometimes disclosing it and sometimes not.

The deeper question is what photography competitions are actually measuring. If the answer is technical skill with a camera and light, AI images are clearly out of scope. If the answer is vision and composition, the line becomes murkier.

Do you think competitions should have separate AI categories, ban AI entirely, or just update their criteria and let it all compete together?

[Sentinel96]

Separate categories is the only answer that makes sense. You would not enter a painting into a photography competition. AI image generation is a different discipline