Flamingone, a photograph by Miles Astray depicting a flamingo bending its neck to cover its head beneath its physique, gained the Individuals’s Vote award and a bronze prize within the AI class of this yr’s 1839 Shade Pictures Contest (“Named after the yr the medium was first made broadly accessible to the general public,” in keeping with its website). After which it was disqualified for being an actual photograph.
“I wished to point out that nature can nonetheless beat the machine and that there’s nonetheless benefit in actual work from actual creatives,” the photographer informed PetaPixel. “After seeing latest cases of AI-generated imagery beating precise pictures in competitions, I began desirous about turning the story and its implications round by submitting an actual photograph into an AI competitors.”
Again in 2022, AI artist Jason Allen won first prize in the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition. An uproar adopted, and we requested Allen for his ideas. “I feel the backlash is par for the course for any main development in know-how because it pertains to artwork”, he mentioned. “Such was the case with the digicam, threatening portrait artists prior to now, the place the man ‘did not must do something besides press a button.’ After all, we all know that’s ridiculous now, but it surely takes time to just accept new eras of artwork advances.”
Then in 2023 Boris Eldagsen won the creative open category in the Sony World Photography Awards before revealing his image was created by AI. “AI photos and images shouldn’t compete with one another in an award like this”, he mentioned on the time. “They’re completely different entities. AI shouldn’t be images. Subsequently I can’t settle for the award.”
Eldagsen was making an attempt to make the purpose that images awards weren’t prepared for AI, and he appears to have been proper. The 1839 competitors’s judges embody administrators and managers from The New York Instances, Christie’s, Getty Pictures, and the Maddox Gallery, none of whom had been in a position to inform the distinction between an AI creation and an actual {photograph} of a flamingo tucking its head away.
