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.

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