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AI-generated image selected for a Sony World Photography Award

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Re: AI-generated image selected for a Sony World Photography Award

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #95
aenvoker wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Camera wonking is great, but if you don’t like any AI art, that suggests you are rejecting the concept out of hand. Being so low-barrier, there is naturally a flood of images from beginners who are just futzing around. But, I hear a common refrain that sounds to me like “DeviantART.com has millions of sketches from bored 13 year olds. Therefore I don’t consider pencil to be an artistic medium.” I’d be interested in y…

It's not so much a rejection of concept, I just find that it does nothing for me emotionally or intellectually. I had a scroll through the Twitter profile, and whilst at least unusual in terms of content, I close the app and remember none of it. None of it is bold enough to be memorable compositionally for me. It's competent, sure, it's just unremarkable and lacks humanity. Does that mean it's "bad"? It's just not fo…

Until the artist confessed, the 'photo' had won a photography prize.

So it has gotten to the point where contest judges think AI can (be used as a tool to) make good pictures.

Re: AI-generated image selected for a Sony World Photography Award

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Post by hammyhavoc »

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #111
hammyhavoc wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not so much a rejection of concept, I just find that it does nothing for me emotionally or intellectually. I had a scroll through the Twitter profile, and whilst at least unusual in terms of content, I close the app and remember none of it. None of it is bold enough to be memorable compositionally for me. It's competent, sure, it's just unremarkable and lacks humanity. Does that mean it's "bad"? It's just not fo…

Until the artist confessed, the 'photo' had won a photography prize. So it has gotten to the point where contest judges think AI can (be used as a tool to) make good pictures.

That's giving far too much credit to judges in the first place. Consider art critics as a whole, they have been proven to be cork sniffing blowhards many times over with them believing that paintings done by elephants, monkeys and toddlers are somehow masterpieces and that the artist had fine motor control and clearly put a lot of thought and emotion into their work.

Art is subjective. If you can accept that art is subjective then quantification of the quality and value of art is absurd.

Those who can, do, those who can't—judge photo contests?

All it tells you about is the taste of the judging panel.

Re: AI-generated image selected for a Sony World Photography Award

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Post by mattdesl »

galleywest200 wrote: post #4

My initial reaction was "great, so this is a thing now" but then I opened the article: > "I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out, if the comeptitions (sic) are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not." I withdraw my heavy sigh. --- This did get me thinking though -- could camera manufacturers add a new tag to the EXIF data that is cryptographically signed by the camera? This could then be carried over from t…

Some cameras do this already, and there is some interesting research (2022) that tries to use zero-knowledge proofs to make signed images editable (e.g. cropping, simple adjustments).

https://medium.com/@boneh/using-zk-proofs-to-fight-disinform...

Re: AI-generated image selected for a Sony World Photography Award

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Post by [deleted] »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #113
Kim_Bruning wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until the artist confessed, the 'photo' had won a photography prize. So it has gotten to the point where contest judges think AI can (be used as a tool to) make good pictures.

That's giving far too much credit to judges in the first place. Consider art critics as a whole, they have been proven to be cork sniffing blowhards many times over with them believing that paintings done by elephants, monkeys and toddlers are somehow masterpieces and that the artist had fine motor control and clearly put a lot of thought and emotion into their work. Art is subjective. If you can accept that art is s…

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