AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
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AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
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Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
#2That would be enough for me to skip the fair. Money talks; AI in the arts needs to walk.
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#3extremely noticeably so, too. A shame that the judges arent equipped to notice this sort of thing: the winning entry is pretty clearly the sort of result you get with a first naive attempt of "make a poster" with no style guidelines at all.
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#4My workplace did a sweepstakes for the world cup and there were bonus prizes for decorating your desk. All three winners had simply uploaded photos of their desks to an AI image generator and had it add flags etc to decorate and submitted that. One person used AI to make it look like he was wearing the jersey of his assigned team.
The person running the contest wrote up something about how impressed she was with the creative use of AI.
The whole thing makes me sad - wouldn't the idea of this sort of thing be to scrounge up flags of obscure countries or make them out of paper and do a bit of arts and crafts to decorate your desk for the month? Instead people were just throwing 50 words into an AI system a few times and getting out a photo to submit.
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#5The poster: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i...
Note the pigs are numbered 1, 2, 1. And the gondola with a floating cable and another that terminates at a tent top.
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#6Maybe they were looking to generate publicity. There's no way they picked those over the 4th and 5th place.
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#7What's crazy is that the winning poster looks like one-shot AI output and probably was given the mistakes in it.
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#8extremely noticeably so, too. A shame that the judges arent equipped to notice this sort of thing: the winning entry is pretty clearly the sort of result you get with a first naive attempt of "make a poster" with no style guidelines at all.
It is very noticeable. Funny how it jumps right out when you've seen AI slop often enough. #5 is good and looks "real", whatever that means any more.
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#9I think this is the actual image: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i...
Notably, the zipline is all wacky, and two piggies are #1, probably more things I didn't notice at a skim?
I guess they didn't explicitly forbid AI, and it wasn't noticed until after the winner was selected, and now you can't "roll back"? It seems this was later added to the page:
> [...] we recognize that the use of AI has changed greatly over the last few years in ways we didn’t anticipate, and will be reevaluating the rules and processes for 2027, which will include prohibiting the use of AI [...]
July 7 2026 mirror of the page without that updated notice: https://web.archive.org/web/20260707145158/https://www.ohios...
Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest
#10The other four top entries are all obvious human efforts as well. Must be annoying for them to lose to a blatant AI entry.