Desiring AI ethical standards in news organizations is not pearl clutching.
I didn't suggest the Cuba project violates AP ethical standards btw: AP would have no interest in the work afaik. I'm saying I think it would violate standards if used in a news outlet as photojournalism. That paragraph in my post was referring to the newspaper image you shared. I was trying to make the point that hand illustrations from the 1800s and AI illustrations that look like photographs of actual events are different things entirely and ought to be treated differently by news organizations. That's my take on it anyway.
The quote below is from the AI illustrative reportage experimental artist himself:
"Publications such as The New York Times and The New Yorker have for decades used reportage illustrations of various kinds alongside reporting, to illuminate experiences, ideas and people in various ways while expanding our idea of a subject. Reportage illustrations allow for fresh connections to something that, though the illustration may not be real, may feel true. A.I. Reportage Illustration may arguably go a step further, as a generated image created from hundreds of millions of photographs may feel not only true, but real."
It's the last two words of that quote that are problematic for me, no matter if there is evidence in the metadata that the illustration is AI. Some ethical standards around this use of AI would help clarify.
