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AI-Assisted Image Editing for City Media

What it is for

Inform
  • Supports production of visual content broadcast on New York City's television stations, including edits required for FCC regulatory compliance and improvements to visual composition.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

Run by
Mayor's Office
Where
No fixed location
Kept
Retained Not specified in the register entry
Shared with
Accountable organization

What it is for

Inform

The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment uses Adobe Photoshop's generative AI features to make minor edits to images that appear in content broadcast on New York City's television stations. Uses include blurring logos to comply with FCC regulations and extending images to improve visual composition. Input images are either copyrighted by the City or licensed for editing, and when they depict people, a written consent form is required. The resulting edited images are broadcast on city television.

What it collects and what happens to it

Data taken in

Sensitive personal information
Identifiable data
  • Images of people that are copyrighted by or licensed to the City of New York. When images depict individuals, a written consent form is required before the image is processed.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

About a place
Anonymized data
  • Images of scenes, settings, or environments that are copyrighted by or licensed to the City of New York, used as source material for generative editing.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

Processing

Computer Vision
  • Photoshop's AI interprets image content to identify regions and objects — such as logos, people, and backgrounds — to guide targeted generative modifications.
Language Models
  • Adobe Firefly generative image models underpin the AI features in Photoshop. These were trained on licensed Adobe Stock content and public domain material with expired copyright.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

What it does

Sensing (Perceptive AI)
Human decides
  • Photoshop's AI senses and interprets image content to understand the scene — identifying regions such as logos, people, or background areas — so that targeted generative edits can be applied.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

Creating (Generative AI)
Human decides
  • Adobe Photoshop uses generative AI to synthesize new image content — for example, blurring or replacing a company logo on a t-shirt or extending the composition of an image to add visual interest such as adding legs to a figure cropped at the waist. A human operator initiates and approves each edit.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

Outputs

Generated content
Anonymized data
  • Edited images produced for broadcast on New York City's television stations. Examples include images with logos blurred for FCC compliance or with visual composition extended. Output may include images of people; where it does, consent was obtained prior to input.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

Run by

Mayor's Office
  • NYC government agency that deploys Adobe Photoshop with generative AI to edit images for content broadcast on the city's television stations.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

Built by

Adobe
  • Adobe provides the Photoshop software, including generative AI image editing features. Adobe regularly updates the software and trained its generative AI image models on licensed content such as Adobe Stock and public domain content.

NYC AI Use Cases — Adobe Photoshop

Kept for

Retained Not specified in the register entry
  • The register entry does not specify a retention period for edited output images. Images are broadcast on NYC television and retained for media production purposes; consult the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for specific retention policies.
  • Duration: Not specified in the register entry

Shared with

Available to the accountable organization
  • Edited output images are retained by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment for use in broadcast content on NYC television stations.

Stored

Stored on 3rd Party Cloud
  • Adobe Photoshop is a commercial off-the-shelf product procured from Adobe. Processing may involve Adobe's cloud infrastructure. The register entry does not specify data storage jurisdiction or duration for output images.
  • Duration: Not specified in the register entry
How to read the colours

Can it identify you?

Anonymized data
Data about people with the link to who is broken. Stripped of identifiers, blurred, aggregated, or noised so this system can’t reasonably tie a record back to an individual.
Pseudonymous data
Each person’s data is tied to a token (hash, ID, template) that lets this system recognise the same person across events, but the token itself doesn’t reveal a name. Reidentification is possible with extra information.
Identifiable data
The data either contains a direct identifier (name, address, account name, recognisable face or voice, plate number) or carries a token this system uses to look up legal identity during processing.

Who completes the loop?

Human decides
This mode suggests; a person decides what to do next. The AI is always advisory — a human is in the loop on every decision. Example: a triage tool ranks cases for a clinician who chooses which to see first.
Human executes
This mode decides; a person carries out the result. Example: an optimizer plans the day’s trash-collection routes, and drivers run them.
Autonomous
This mode decides and acts on its own. No person reviews each decision or carries out the resulting action.

Definitions from the DTPR standard. Amber is about your data, violet about who decides. The fuller the shape and the deeper the colour, the more identifying the data or the less a person is involved.

What you can do

Ask about this system

Questions go to the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation, not the vendor.

Your rights

  • Right to Be Informed of AI UseIndividuals whose images are edited using AI-assisted tools are covered by a written consent form obtained before processing. This DTPR disclosure notice is publicly available to inform members of the public that AI-assisted image editing is used in some content broadcast on NYC television.
  • Right to Algorithmic TransparencyAdobe has published information about how Photoshop's generative AI features work, including that its generative AI image models were trained on licensed content such as Adobe Stock and public domain content where copyright has expired. This register entry describes the specific uses made by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment.

Risks and safeguards

  • Civil liberties harmGenerative AI editing of images depicting real people could, if misused, alter or misrepresent individuals in broadcast content, raising concerns about accuracy and consent.Safeguard: The agency requires a written consent form for all images of people before processing. Input images must be copyrighted by or licensed to the City with authorization for edits. Human staff review and approve all edits prior to broadcast.
  • Reputational harmAI-generated alterations to images containing identifiable individuals or branded elements could misrepresent them in public broadcast content.Safeguard: Use is limited to licensed or City-owned images. FCC-driven logo blurring and compositional extension are the stated use cases. Human editorial oversight is applied at each step before broadcast.