“Free of AIFI” isn't the same as “trustworthy”
All TTG-qualified photos are free of AI-fabricated imaging.
Any use of AIFI disqualifies a photo from P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, and P7.
But AIFI is only one of many ways of making images that look like undoctored photographs but are not.
Not one of the countless “digital-manipulation controversies” of the first 40 years of photography’s digital age involved AIFI (see the first four decades discussed here).
Saying an image is “free of AIFI” is not enough
Knowing that a picture is “free of AIFI” is no reassurance that it is trustworthy — not unless the picture also has all 9 characteristics of the world’s most-widely trusted photographs.
See also FAQ #104