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Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo

by hendi_ on 6/12/24, 9:11 PM with 29 comments

  • by gorkish on 6/12/24, 9:34 PM

    > “I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives,” Astray tells PetaPixel over email.

    Sometimes I don't really "get" the art, but everything about this is [chef's kiss].

  • by esafak on 6/12/24, 9:33 PM

    Winning this competition must have felt so sweet. I bet some fist pumps and high fives were exchanged.
  • by glimshe on 6/12/24, 10:54 PM

    That actually makes sense - and partially an admission that AI can't compete with real artists yet. It's like a pro sending a picture to an event that only allows amateurs.
  • by skeledrew on 6/13/24, 12:33 AM

    It seems to me that this artist is just proving even more that we're art the stage where AI-generated art generally can't be distinguished from real-world art. This artist submitted a very thought-provoking work (still having a hard time thinking of that picture as a bird myself), and that's what won them the contest. It could just as easily have been generated.
  • by hiccuphippo on 6/12/24, 9:30 PM

    Let me be the one to ask the obvious question, where did the Flamingo's head go?
  • by smrtinsert on 6/12/24, 9:32 PM

    Well played
  • by abpavel on 6/12/24, 9:36 PM

    Feels like humans cheering for Kasparov when he beat Deep Blue. That fleeting moment in time, a crest of a wave, before the change of times.
  • by barfbagginus on 6/12/24, 9:56 PM

    Disrespectful to the AI art medium.

    I don't want to see art from someone who has spent a hundred thousand hours looking at the real world.

    I want to see art from someone who has spent a hundred thousand hours looking at AI medium output

    For you see, the second artist will be quite mad. The first artist is just a pretentious fake who has not destroyed their own mind.