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Photography Cheats, Fake Owls, and Why Authenticity Is Still the Hardest Skill to Master
There’s a specific kind of embarrassment reserved for photographers who get caught cheating in major competitions. Not the quiet shame of a bad edit — I mean the full public disqualification, your name attached to a scandal, the whole thing. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately because, honestly, it keeps happening. And the more I pay attention to it, the more I realize it reveals something worth talking about: what we’ve quietly stopped caring about in the age of AI-assisted everything.