āI won, and I didnāt break any rules,ā the artworkās creator says.
This year, the Colorado State Fairās annual art competition gave out prizes in all the usual categories: painting, quilting, sculpture.
But one entrant, Jason M. Allen of Pueblo West, Colo., didnāt 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. Allenās work, āThéâtre DāopĆ©ra Spatial,ā took home the blue ribbon in the fairās 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.
These new AI apps have made many human artists understandably nervous about their own futures, why would anyone pay for art, they wonder, when they could generate it themselves? They have also generated fierce debates about the ethics of A.I.-generated art, and opposition from people who claim that these apps are essentially a high-tech form of plagiarism.
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