{"id":1655,"date":"2022-09-05T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2022-09-05T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T02:21:12","slug":"ai-generated-artwork-goes-viral-after-winning-award-at-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/ai-generated-artwork-goes-viral-after-winning-award-at-state-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Generated Artwork Goes Viral after Winning Award at State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debate around AI art\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">went viral once again<\/a>\u00a0when a man won first place at the Colorado State Fair\u2019s art competition in the digital category with a work he made using text-to-image AI generator Midjourney.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user and digital artist Genel Jumalon tweeted out a screenshot from a Discord channel in which user Sincarnate, aka game designer Jason Allen, celebrated his win at the fair. Jumalon wrote, \u201cSomeone entered an art competition with an AI-generated piece and won the first prize. Yeah that\u2019s pretty fucking shitty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments on the post range from despair and anger as artists, both digital and traditional, worry that their livelihoods might be at stake after years of believing that creative work would be safe from AI-driven automation.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, for his part, isn\u2019t sorry that he won. In an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the<em>\u00a0Pueblo Chieftain<\/em><\/a>, Allen said, \u201cI wanted to make a statement using artificial intelligence artwork. I feel like I accomplished that, and I\u2019m not going to apologize for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen submitted three works created with Midjourney after testing out a variety of phrases, though he has thus far refused to share the combination of words he fed to the generator to create his winning work. According to his interview with the\u00a0<em>Chieftain<\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>he priced each work at $750, a price he felt was commensurate with the amount of time it took him to create them, which he estimated at around 80 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The winning work,\u00a0<em>Th\u00e9\u00e2tre D\u2019op\u00e9ra Spatial,\u00a0<\/em>is a lush scene in which three figures occupy a gilded room with a huge circular window that looks out onto a distant landscape. The image is transportive, and Allen had hoped from the beginning that it would win, not for the sake of achieving victory but for the sake of staking a claim for artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like, right now, the art community is heading into an existential crisis if it\u2019s not already. A big factor of that is \u2026 the disruptive technology of open AI,\u201d Allen told the\u00a0<em>Chieftain<\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em>\u201cA lot of people are saying, \u2018AI is never going to take over creative jobs, that\u2019s never going to be something that artists and sculptors have to worry about.\u2019 And here we are smack in the middle of it, dealing with it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate around AI art\u00a0went viral once again\u00a0when a man won first place at the Colorado State Fair\u2019s art competition in the digital category with a work he made using text-to-image AI generator Midjourney. 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