Some are decrying 'the death of artistry.'
Artists in Colorado are up in arms over the first-prize winner at the annual state fair’s art competition: a digital collage made by artificial intelligence.Jason Allen via Midjourney, which cites the name of the program used to blend different images and the artist who entered the resulting work into the competition.
“Technology is increasingly deployed to make gig jobs and to make billionaires richer, and so much of it doesn’t seem to benefit the public good enough,” cartoonist Matt Bors, referring to A.I. art programs like Midjourney. “A.I. art is part of that. To developers and technically minded people, it’s this cool thing, but to illustrators it’s very upsetting because it feels like you’ve eliminated the need to hire the illustrator.
“I knew this would be controversial,” Allen said in his own Discord server on Tuesday, responding to his critics. “How interesting is it to see how all these people on Twitter who are against AI generated art are the first ones to throw the human under the bus by discrediting the human element! Does this seem hypocritical to you guys?”
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