Artist Jason Allen competed in a fine art contest at the Colorado State Fair.He
Allen used Midjourney, a commercial image synthesis model available on the Discord server, and created three images.He then enlarged them, printed them on canvas and presented them in a competition.One of the images, titled Théåtre D'opéra Spatial, won the grand prize.
Allen's victory caused lively discussions inTwitter, Reddit and the Midjourney Discord server about the nature of art and what it means to be an artist. Some commentators believe that human art is doomed thanks to artificial intelligence and that algorithms will replace machines. Others believe that art will evolve and adapt with the advent of new technologies.
Picture of the Midjourney algorithm
It is not entirely clear whether Allen informed the judges thatthat he synthesized the image - some Twitter users contacted the jury and found out that they did not know anything. As Ars Technica notes, this is “the perfect solution to the debate about whether AI works are art.”
But researchers who work withimage synthesis tools note that they are not yet well developed and require significant human intervention. “In the future, this will change, and then the question of whether algorithms produce art will become even more acute,” Ars Technica says in the text.
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