[DIGITAL DUSTUP] A.I. Generated Picture Wins Art Prize And Artists Aren’t Happy

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[NYTIMES] 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.

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[GIZMODO] Jason Allen, CEO of tabletop game company Incarnate Games, submitted his piece, titled Théåtre D’opéra Spatial, to the Digital Arts/Digitally-Manipulated section of the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts competition, and he won.

The sci-fi-esque piece features a figure in a white dress that appears to be standing in front of a massive circular window—almost like something from Denis Villeneuve’s Dune with a dash of The Foundation—and was generated using an AI engine from Midjourney.

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