Is AI replacing artists or simply complementing their work?
Artists participating in the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition were furious after the president of the Colorado-based tabletop gaming company Incarnate Games, Jason Allen, won the first prize in the Digital Art Category,Allen won in the Digital Arts / Digitally Manipulated Photography category with a work called “Théâtre D'opéra Spatial” which is an AI-generated image printed on a canvas.
Allen did, however, note that he touched up the final image in Photoshop and upscaled it with Gigapixel. To make this clear, Allen labeled his submission as “Jason Allen via Midjourney.” " was engineered by the Paris-based collective Obvious. The artists achieved this by feeding their Generative Adversarial Networks a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th centuries. Their algorithm analyzed the human-made images and proceeded to create its own art based on what it had learned from the thousands of portraits.This piece of art brought up a lot of questions.
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