Colorado: AI wins art competition, artist only edits by hand
In Colorado, an AI won an art competition. The images she created were only manually edited with Photoshop, the Midjourney image program did the rest itself. While the program was allowed to be used in competition, numerous artists whose work has been outdone by a program are now complaining. Read more about this below.
Artificial intelligence is one of the most interesting outcomes that can benefit from more and more computing power. While it can be used for good purposes and not all applications always make sense, AI also offers potential for abuse or areas of application in which it would not have belonged. Jason Allen, an American from Colorado, has now used AI software to create art with which he entered the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts competition.
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His participation might not have been noticed if he and his AI’s art hadn’t won first place. While the result doesn’t seem to please everyone, he still played with his cards open. He signed his artworks “Jason Allen via Midjourney” and also invested a considerable amount of time in the project, so that one could not accuse him of laziness. He didn’t simply adopt the results of the AI either, but pimped them up again via Photoshop, so that one can speak of manual completion.
However, the result of the competition isn’t necessarily just placement, but rather that Midjourney, an AI program that can create images, can deliver better artwork than its human competition in Colorado. Not only that, but also works of art that cannot be recognized for what they are by human critics. Incidentally, Midjourney uses text input for a human-like touch, which is then to be reflected in elements in the images.
The program is currently still in the beta phase, but its functionality already seems to be beyond question. According to a representative of the responsible department, Jason Allen, who has meanwhile experienced a lot of hostility because of the use of AI, has adhered to all the rules and announced the use beforehand. The judges were also informed and indicated that although they were unaware of the program at the time of the judging, they would not have judged Allen differently.
Source: PC gamers
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