Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Springtime 2026

March 21, 2026 at 3:24 pm #1968169

pagan8th

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This is kinda spring related… as it involves a photograph I just took… and it’s spring.

I know AI is touchy subject for a lot of people, especially when it comes to denying artists money by using AI, but I have a question.

Suppose I was creating a book for an RPG and wanted to use some photographs that I had taken, but there was something in the picture I didn’t like and asked AI to remove it (an example will follow). Is that wrong?

So here’s the original photo (reduced in size to match the AI altered image) taken with my phone…

Tree-Before

And here is the one after I asked it to remove the urban aspects of the photo…

Tree-After

Is that inappropriate use of AI?

And taking it a step further… if I took a picture of me… and asked AI to make me look like a troll, dwarf, elf etc… is that wrong?