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Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo
- glimshe 2y agoThat actually makes sense - and partially an admission that AI can't compete with real artists yet. It's like a pro sending a picture to an event that only allows amateurs.
- aoeusnth1 2y agoHe placed third, though, right?
- hiccuphippo 2y agoLet me be the one to ask the obvious question, where did the Flamingo's head go?
- smrtinsert 2y agoWell played
- esafak 2y agoWinning this competition must have felt so sweet. I bet some fist pumps and high fives were exchanged.
- gorkish 2y ago> “I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives,” Astray tells PetaPixel over email. Sometimes I don't really "get" the art, but everything about this is [chef's kiss].
- tsunamifury 2y agoSeems more like a professional basketball player dunking on a jr high after school leave to me.
- WalterSear 2y agoCertainly - a jr high schooler who was talking smack.
- tsunamifury 2y agoNo just exists. Not talking smack at all
- aoeusnth1 2y agoHe got third place though - not first. His comments seem relatively self congratulatory given that context.
- Zambyte 2y agoPhotography isn't real work from real creatives; painting is. All you're doing is pointing a box and pressing a button, the camera does all the work for you :) I say this in slight jest as someone who does amateur / semi-pro photography. Yes, the barrier to entry to generative AI is lower than the barrier to entry for photography. Just like the barrier to entry for photography is (skill wise) lower than the barrier to entry for painting. That is completely unrelated to the high end / skill ceiling. You can use generative AI in creative ways. Just like you can use a box that instantly captures a scene with the press of a button in creative ways.
- abpavel 2y agoFeels like humans cheering for Kasparov when he beat Deep Blue. That fleeting moment in time, a crest of a wave, before the change of times.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoDo not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- bugbuddy 2y agoCan AI come up with new novel things? A nature photographer could , through luck and hard work, photograph a new species of animal while traveling through an unexplored area. Could AI do that?
- Zambyte 2y ago> Could AI do that? ... yes? Have you actually played around with photo generation tools? You can absolutely generate novel images.
- muffinman26 2y agoAt the risk of stating the obvious and wasting people's time, it seems pretty self-evident that knowing about the existence of a species we didn't know about before is more interesting than someone creating an image of something that may or may not exist.
- Zambyte 2y agoI think you're asserting your opinion about a strawman situation as fact... Put another, slightly more concrete way: what is more interesting, a photograph of a newly discovered moon of Jupiter, or a new album by Taylor Swift? Obviously people are interested in different things. Believe it or not, many people would forget about the new moon or new species within seconds or minutes. If someone used generative AI tools to create a visually impactful image, I could imagine someone hanging it on their wall, and being completely disinterested in a photo of a newly discovered jellyfish. People simply have different interests.
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- barfbagginus 2y agoDisrespectful to the AI art medium. I don't want to see art from someone who has spent a hundred thousand hours looking at the real world. I want to see art from someone who has spent a hundred thousand hours looking at AI medium output For you see, the second artist will be quite mad. The first artist is just a pretentious fake who has not destroyed their own mind.
- tanseydavid 2y ago"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." -Dorothy
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- skeledrew 2y agoIt seems to me that this artist is just proving even more that we're art the stage where AI-generated art generally can't be distinguished from real-world art. This artist submitted a very thought-provoking work (still having a hard time thinking of that picture as a bird myself), and that's what won them the contest. It could just as easily have been generated.
- n2d4 2y agoWe went from "the judges couldn't tell it was AI generated" to "the judges couldn't tell it was real". What a world we live in