At present, photographic competitions probably won't forensically check every single entry for Ai use, although scanning for illegal Adobe firefly use in the metadata of image files is currently trivial using batch C2PA searches and could process and flag 1000s of files in folder in seconds so this is something probably in the pipeline if not already being used by NCPF.

The NCPF has recently been contacted by a member club concerning the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within an image submitted to one of their internal club competitions. The use of AI was inadvertent, and the result of using a “generative remove tool" within a popular software application. This tool generated new artificial content which was not the original work of the author. The NCPF thought it would be helpful to clubs to restate our position on the use of generati