Artificial intelligence conjured up an arresting work with just a few words.
Adobe Stock / AOP / Jason Allen via Midjourney
A work created by artificial intelligence Théâtre D’opéra Spatial has won the blue ribbon in the Colorado State Fair’s annual art contest for emerging digital artists. This is one of the first times when art produced by artificial intelligence is awarded.
It’s about by Jason M. Allen A work generated with the Midjourney artificial intelligence program, where the artificial intelligence creates images based on the words that are fed to it. After the artificial intelligence had created the work, Allen modified it to be more suitable for the competition with the help of Gigapixel AI.
In artist circles, the work’s victory aroused emotions and Allen was accused of being a fraud.
Allen defended himself for the New York Times in the interview he gave, saying that he had openly said in the competition that he had used artificial intelligence to create the work.
– I won, and I didn’t break any rules, Allen said.
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Théâtre D’opéra Spatial. Jason Allen via Midjourney
Allen only got to know art realized by artificial intelligence this year. He fell in love with the Midjourney program, which was able to meet all his requests.
Art created by artificial intelligence has been around for a long time, but new tools like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have made it possible to create more and more amazing works with just a few words.
Using artificial intelligence to make art and its ethics has been a debate for a long time. If artificial intelligence creates art for free with a few words, what about artists?
Allen told the NYT that he knows artists who fear AI will make them unemployed. However, he emphasizes that anger should not be directed at individuals who use AI tools to make art, but at companies that want to replace human artists with AI programs.