Art fans are fuming after a man won first place in an art competition—using an AI generated artwork.
Jason Allen, aka Sincarnate, won first place in the digital arts category of the Colorado State Fair arts contest with a work called Théâtre D'opéra Spatial.
The beautiful image looks just like a Renaissance painting, but was generated entirely by an artificial intelligence software called Midjourney based on a text prompt written by Allen.
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Allen said in the Midjourney Discord server: "I knew this would be controversial. How interesting is it to see how all these people on Twitter who are against AI generated arts are the first ones to throw the human under the bus by discrediting the human element! Does this seem hypocritical to you guys?"
Allen has since been accused of everything from cheating to hastening the 'death of art'.
Twitter user OmniMorpho said: "We're watching the death of artistry unfold right before our eyes—if creative jobs aren't safe from machines, then even high-skilled jobs are in danger of becoming obsolete. What will we have then?"
Another user wrote: "This sucks for the exact same reason we don't let robots participate in the Olympics."
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One user even said: "I can't help but wonder if this person knows what they did is wrong? Like this is definitely cheating but they are acting like if they made it and not an AI."
However, other art fans were more sympathetic.
One Twitter user said: "I like using AI 'art' generators to inspire what I'm working on. No one created these, no one made these. You punch[ed] a prompt and gave it to an algorithm that slapped something together to make something pretty. No one claims a script as their own when a bot puts out weird nonsense."
Allen maintains that his work played a key role in the creation of the artwork using a 'special prompt' and said he clearly labelled his submission as 'Jason Allen via Midjourney'. "I generate images with MJ, do passes with Photoshop, and upscale with Gigapixel," he said.
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