German artist refuses award after his AI image wins prestigious photography prize
by Boris Eldagsen took first prize in the Creative category at the World Photography Organization’s Sony World Photography Awards — despite not being taken by a camera. Eldagsen subsequently refused the award, saying"AI is not photography. I applied... to find out if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not.", designed to evoke a photographic style of the 1940s.
In a blog, Eldagsen explained that he used his experience as a photographer to create the prize-winning image, acting as a director of the process with the AI generators as"co-creators." Although the work is inspired by photography, he said that the point of the submission is that it isphotography.
Eldagsen subsequently declined the prize. “Thank you for selecting my image and making this a historic moment, as it is the first AI-generated image to win in a prestigious international photography competition,” he. “How many of you knew or suspected that it was AI generated? Something about this doesn’t feel right, does it? AI images and photography should not compete with each other in an award like this. They are different entities. AI is not photography.
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