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Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by DrewADesign »

pkaeding wrote: post #125
DrewADesign wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And photography is something where the image determines whether or not it’s art. If you are constructing an image using form, shape, light, subjects, tool selection, and all sorts of other factors to translate a 3D scene into a 2D image, revealing your particular perspective, then that is art, and pretty difficult at that. If you take a flat, objective, documentary picture of a painting, that’s not art. If you take a…

Is taping a banana to the wall art?

As a performance maybe? Frankly I don’t give a flying fuck about how those rich kids entertain themselves. It’s like a jobs program for creative kids from big moneyed families. It has no bearing on what happens in the rest of the art world and it could not matter less when considering how credit and attribution work in commercial art.

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by teeray »

embedding-shape wrote: post #9

I 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…

> …[we] will be reevaluating the rules and processes for 2027…

…by which time we will have hoped the public will have forgotten about all this and moved on.

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by user00005 »

I create visual graphics for a living. I know my limits and stay in my lane. I wish AI would do the same because its style is vomit inducing.

I like entry number 3 and number 5. Five has a great punch of color it just feels like the 'frame' needed a little more finish work.

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by teeray »

satvikpendem wrote: post #113
kazinator wrote: post #22

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> they didn't explicitly forbid AI Yes they did; the contestants must be at least 18 years old and residents of Ohio. AI is neither. Would it be within contest rules if an 19-year-old resident of Ohio served as an artistic director, giving suggestions to a 12-year-old from Kentucky who does the actual work?

They only care who submitted it not who actually created it.

“Yes, the 7th grader who submitted this poster calls it the ‘Mona Lisa’. Doesn’t have anything to do with the state fair, but I swear this one belongs in a museum! Honorable Mention for sure!”

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by teeray »

userbinator wrote: post #101
dyauspitr wrote: post #62

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No AI is a tool. It’s like you saying they didn’t say you can’t use oil paint.

Exactly. This was ultimately the work of a human who used AI to create something.

Just like the incredible pizza I made when I picked up my phone and said to it “one large supreme”, and there it was at my door, 30 minutes later. I really love how good the stuffed crust I made came out. /s

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by [deleted] »

SwellJoe wrote: post #40
embedding-shape wrote: post #9

I 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…

Jebus, that image is dogshit. There is no way in a million years I would put my name on something like that. It truly is the age of the shameless. If you have no shame and no ethics, you really can go far.

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Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by ameliaquining »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #47
kazinator wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they didn't explicitly forbid AI Yes they did; the contestants must be at least 18 years old and residents of Ohio. AI is neither. Would it be within contest rules if an 19-year-old resident of Ohio served as an artistic director, giving suggestions to a 12-year-old from Kentucky who does the actual work?

No they didn’t—from TFA: When the poster contest was originally formed in 2024, the use of AI was permitted if explained as a part of the application process. Since current US legal decisions indicate that genAI works are not copyrightable, this is troublesome for any organization that wants exclusive licensing for publicity. The State Fair would expect to incorporate their art winners into marketing, posters, and ex…

Probably they figured that the risk of any of that stuff causing actual problems was less than the headache of publicly disqualifying an already-announced winner who has a colorable argument that she didn't break any rules.

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by ameliaquining »

teeray wrote: post #132
embedding-shape wrote: post #9

I 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…

> …[we] will be reevaluating the rules and processes for 2027… …by which time we will have hoped the public will have forgotten about all this and moved on.

And why not? Is there any particular reason people will still need to care about this a year later?

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by ameliaquining »

skybrian wrote: post #130
DrewADesign wrote: post #69

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If you don't try to have fun with it then you're not going to have fun.

I think the problem is that, once you get good enough to reliably spot AI output at a given level of obviousness, seeing more of it stops being fun and starts being just depressing, and this is more true the more of it you see.

There's no shame in not being that experienced yet, but if you're not, you should recognize that people who are are naturally going to have a different reaction.

Re: AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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Post by Brian_K_White »

no-name-here wrote: post #82
andsoitis wrote: post #37

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> I think this is the actual image: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i ... "Celebrating Ohio's and America's 250th birthday" Ohio is 223 years old, having officially joined the United States as the 17th state in 1803.

> https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i... > "Celebrating Ohio's and America's 250th birthday" > Ohio is 223 years old You might have misread the text? I see something different in the “Celebrating Ohio and America’s 250th birthday”, which I read as celebrating: 1. Ohio overall 2. America’s 250th

Without the Oxford comma, it was the most reasonable way to read it.
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