There has always been some fuzziness behind what counts as "genuine photography" and people have been gatekeeping it for decades as new camera tech became available. Generating statistically likely pixels given the context of the image and massive amounts of (untraceable, stolen) training data definitely seems like a different kind of post-processing than what you'd normally do in an editor, or even changing pixels by hand.
Nikon gets to gatekeep their competition however they like. Personally I think it would be a shame to reward photographers for the work they do outside taking the shot and light editing/compositing. What's the point of a competition if you're not going to enforce high standards and challenging constraints?
Nikon gets to gatekeep their competition however they like. Personally I think it would be a shame to reward photographers for the work they do outside taking the shot and light editing/compositing. What's the point of a competition if you're not going to enforce high standards and challenging constraints?