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[lemon10]

I doubt the judges knew. They probably would have just failed him if they did.
I also disagree with the notion that he "just" put in a prompt. Doing this and refining the outputs takes hours. I would be very surprised if he spent less then 10 or 15 hours on this.
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As for the rest?
Is it unfair? Evil and immoral? A sign that the dude is a scumbag?
Well those are all moral judgements left up to you.

[KittyTac]

If I was in power I would pass a law saying that AI art is always public domain. Solves this whole issue.

[King Zultan]

Using AI for art seems like cheating, also how would it take over 5 hours to make one picture with AI?

[Loud Whispers]

I doubt the judges knew. They probably would have just failed him if they did.

The competition’s two judges tell the Chieftain they were unaware that Allen had used A.I. to create his piece. But even if they had known, they still would’ve given him first place. They said they awarded the top prize based on the story Théâtre D’opéra Spatial tells, as well as the spirit it invokes.

Based judges

This is not something to fear; honestly the state of modern art is a much bigger threat to killing off skilled artists than AI because modern art has already proven you don't need any artistic skill to be an artist. At least now an unskilled artist can use AI to produce something aesthetically pleasing - and most of all, I think people are neglecting to mention how much of a complementary tool these programs can be to artists. E.g. pitch correction tools being used by amateur singers to teach themselves how to sing - and become professional singers. I even saw a stream from a Korean warthunder artist who fed his own art into an AI, gave it a prompt to make more of his own work, and used the AI prompt to teach himself how to do shading better

[Strongpoint]

Using AI for art seems like cheating, also how would it take over 5 hours to make one picture with AI?

Even if we discount more advanced stuff like inpainting and assume no work on the ai generated image whatsoever (I doubt there was no photoshopping)... trial and error of finding a required prompt will take hours.

Also, the most important part of art is the idea, not the execution.


After all, there is nothing new. Some artists screamed that photography isn't an art.

If I was in power I would pass a law saying that AI art is always public domain. Solves this whole issue.

AI is merely a tool. It is like saying that stuff printed on 3D printer should be free.

[KittyTac]

When used as a tool e.g to inpaint, as the first stage before Photoshopping, or to teach drawing techniques, the copyright should indeed go to the user. What I think should be in public domain is stuff you just generated as-is with a prompt. Decent prompts take far less than hours to make in my experience, especially if you just modify an existing one, and thus would IMO devalue artists too much.

Though this law will get harder and harder to enforce.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: the adventures of hand-drawn bf and AI-drawn gf (click to show/hide)

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Top left and middle right are peak ramen eating form

[King Zultan]

You'd think something that could produce art of that quality would have no trouble with something as simple as chopsticks.

[Robsoie]

You'd think something that could produce art of that quality would have no trouble with something as simple as chopsticks.

Spoiler: it's not the chopstick that you should worry about (click to show/hide)

[brewer bob]

My brain is hurting from those AI images.

[TamerVirus]

Well that ain’t the NovelAI model, for one!
Also you gotta step up your prompt game and add stuff like ‘masterpiece, intricate details, 4K, trending on arstation, by [artist]’ to your input!

[Robsoie]

It's much less hilarious if you force it to produce more decent results

[McTraveller]

cannot...stop....laughing

That final montage of the various depictions of ramen consumption...

[Loud Whispers]

I grab my fistfulls of Ramen and EAT IT

[King Zultan]

I guess even robots have trouble drawing hands, maybe their more like us than I thought.