“I won, and I didn’t break any rules,” the artwork’s creator says.
(NYT)
-----------This year, the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition gave out prizes in all the usual categories: painting, quilting, sculpture.
But one entrant, Jason M. Allen of Pueblo West, Colo., didn’t make his entry with a brush or a lump of clay. He created it with Midjourney, an artificial intelligence program that turns lines of text into hyper-realistic graphics.
Mr. Allen’s work, “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” took home the blue ribbon in the fair’s contest for emerging digital artists — making it one of the first A.I.-generated pieces to win such a prize, and setting off a fierce backlash from artists who accused him of, essentially, cheating.
Reached by phone on Wednesday, Mr. Allen defended his work. He said that he had made clear that his work — which was submitted under the name “Jason M. Allen via Midjourney” — was created using A.I., and that he hadn’t deceived anyone about its origins.
This is one of those things where I feel as if I've been living under a rock and have been caught completely unawares. It was always going to happen, yet it still feels almost unreal to see. The art scene being turned upside down by A.I. changes the narrative and questions what "creativity" and eventually humanity will mean. Can't wait to eventually see A.I. generated movies which could win oscars, or A.I. music being hosted at the Grammys.
Imagine if we enter a new renaissance of art, science, and culture all being driven/generated by A.I.