Artificial Intelligence (AI) wins art contest

An illustration created by an AI won first place in an art contest at the Colorado State Fair in the US and hundreds of artists who competed in the digital art category are not happy.

The title of the illustration is "space opera theater" the author Jason Allen and submitted it along with two other illustrations to the colorado state fair contest to participate in the digital art category. if you want it, appreciate it, give the link.

Jason Allen is the director of a video game company called "Incarnate games" which probably gives him access to equipment with a lot of computational power.

Allen created this illustration along with two others that entered the contest, using a tool called "Midjowrmey" that together with other image-generating models based on artificial intelligence such as dall-e and stability.ai, which in recent months have proven capable of generate very compelling images that look like they were created by human artists and appear so because in a way they are.

These artificial intelligences were trained with millions of images including works by both well-known and unknown artists, probably one of these artificial intelligences was trained with an image of you that is public on the internet, this in itself poses an ethical dilemma.

Internet sites that profit from the use of these models by selling them as subscriptions are somehow profiting from those millions of images whose rights belong to their original authors.

It is plagiarism up to a certain point, but an indirect plagiarism where no one can sue them because the task of taking pieces of works by other artists to compose a new and original image is delegated to an artificial intelligence, which, not being human, cannot infringe copyright laws, obviously the speed with which this field is developing requires a lot of legislation and urgently.

Jason Allen, the "author" of the winning illustration of the contest, simply wrote a request for artificial intelligence to make the image, and that's it, later with that same request he left his powerful computers generating hundreds of images and then choosing the one that most he liked it, increase its resolution with a tool called Gigapixel, a few photoshop tweaks and that's it.

The author presumes to have dedicated several weeks to the "creation" process, which in fact took an afternoon playing with an image-generating model is enough to learn to write very precise requests, he simply wants the process to seem very elaborate to justify his participation. in the contest, since the rest of the participants did not use an artificial intelligence like him and dedicated much more time to their works.

I am not saying that these tools are wrong, of course, like any tool you can use it wrong or you can use it well, for any art contest a separate category should be created for art created through artificial intelligence so that they can compete fairly and under equal conditions; What do you think about all these new technologies, is the human art finished?

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