Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo

https://petapixel.com/2024/06/12/photographer-disqualified-from-ai-image-contest-after-winning-with-real-photo/

by hendi_ • 2 years ago

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hiccuphippo• 2 years ago

Let me be the one to ask the obvious question, where did the Flamingo's head go?

SassyBird• 2 years ago

You can see part of its black beak on the right hand side.

h2odragon• 2 years ago

the head is tucked under the wing. its napping. many birds do this.

bugbuddy3• 2 years ago

Why did the AI cross the road?

smrtinsert• 2 years ago

Well played

esafak• 2 years ago

Winning this competition must have felt so sweet. I bet some fist pumps and high fives were exchanged.

gorkish• 2 years 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].

tsunamifury2• 2 years ago

Seems more like a professional basketball player dunking on a jr high after school leave to me.

WalterSear• 2 years ago

Certainly - a jr high schooler who was talking smack.

aoeusnth12• 2 years ago

He got third place though - not first. His comments seem relatively self congratulatory given that context.

Zambyte4• 2 years ago

Photography 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• 2 years ago

Feels 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• 2 years ago

  Do 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.

bugbuddy3• 2 years ago

Can 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?

Zambyte4• 2 years ago

Could AI do that?

... yes? Have you actually played around with photo generation tools? You can absolutely generate novel images.

nsingh2• 2 years ago

Depends on what you mean by novel. When a photographer takes a photo of a new species, are they really creating a new thing? Or just capturing the novelty that nature created? And the form of the species itself is subject to physical and evolutionary constraints, so how novel is it really?

Retr0id• 2 years ago

Photography captures a real moment, place, or thing.

Generative AI may replace the pictures that hang on the walls of hotel rooms, but I don't see it coming for the photographs in peoples homes, or even art galleries. At least, not at any real scale.

nonameiguess• 2 years ago

What changed exactly? Humans are still competing in chess, earning livelihoods, building fan bases. The ELO world rankings don't have any machines because the International Chess Federation only allows humans to enter competitions, just like all the other IOC sanctioned sports governing bodies. I'm sure Boston Dynamics has long been able to make a robot that can run faster than Usain Bolt, but nobody cared and it didn't matter because robots aren't allowed to compete in officially sanctioned track events. Similar to why MLB teams can't use pitching machines instead of pitchers. A Phalanx can't enter a shooting competition. Wrestling federations don't actually allow man versus car like in Rick and Morty's interdimensional cable.

In some endeavors, humans doing it is the entire point.

barfbagginus• 2 years ago

Disrespectful 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• 2 years ago

"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." -Dorothy

glimshe• 2 years ago

That 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.

aoeusnth12• 2 years ago

He placed third, though, right?

skeledrew• 2 years ago

It 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• 2 years ago

We 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

Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo

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