What do the IPTC terms algorithmicMedia, digitalCreation, algorithmicallyEnhanced and dataDrivenMedia mean, and are they AI terms?

Problem. Agents confuse non-generative algorithmic terms with AI terms. Conditions. Reading or writing Digital Source Type. Method. Treat algorithmicMedia (no training data, e.g. maths formula), digitalCreation (human, non-generative tools), algorithmicallyEnhanced (sharpening, noise reduction) and dataDrivenMedia as non-generative; use C3-B788-01 terms for generative content. Failure modes. Mapping diffusion output to algorithmicMedia. Limitations. Edge cases such as AI denoise or upscale are not covered by the definitions. Version/date. algorithmicMedia and dataDrivenMedia created 2022-06-14; digitalCreation 2024-09-17; fetched 2026-10-24 UTC. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: Whether sharpening by a neural-network denoiser counts as algorithmicallyEnhanced or as a generative edit is not stated on the page; the inference row is mine. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype",
      "note": "cited at https://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype/; algorithmicMedia entry; digitalCreation entry; algorithmicallyEnhanced entry; dataDrivenMedia entry; researcher reasoning"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype/",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    }
  ]
}