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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 greggsy »

shadowgovt wrote: post #39
greggsy wrote: post #26

https://web.archive.org/web/20230325205601/https://www.eldag... >“The work… is the result of a complex interplay of prompt engineering, inpainting and outpainting that draws on my wealth of photographic knowledge. For me, working with AI image generators is a co-creation, in which I am the director. It is not about pressing a button – and done it is. It is about exploring the complexity of this process, starting with…

It's not an April Fool's joke; it was an intentional effort to deceive the competition to highlight the fact that such competitions aren't well-prepared for the addition of AI to the artist's toolbelt. The artist refused the award, and declared it was their intent to highlight this concern.

Aaah. Didn’t pick up that detail.

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

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Post by shadowgovt »

iepathos wrote: post #35

Can tell it's AI generated from the weird looking pinky on right hand side of the photo, looks like it tried to do a thumb there instead. Stellar faces and eyes though.

Credit to the artist: for the overall effect, the AI conceptual error artifacts enhance the effect. The mind picks up that "something's off" but may not immediately catch which details are the problem.

Good ghost image.

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

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Post by visarga »

azubinski wrote: post #14

"AI images and photography should not compete with eachother in an award like this. They are different entities. AI is not photography. Therefore I will not accept the award" That is, the author of this dirty trick knew this very well from the very beginning, but nevertheless he submitted to the competition not a real shot (which is a unique stopped flat moment of reality), but a synthetic picture of which he is not…

Take a look at the other entries. All sorts of abstract stuff combined with photos. It's not a realistic photography contest.

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

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Post by capableweb »

shadowgovt wrote: post #39
greggsy wrote: post #26

https://web.archive.org/web/20230325205601/https://www.eldag... >“The work… is the result of a complex interplay of prompt engineering, inpainting and outpainting that draws on my wealth of photographic knowledge. For me, working with AI image generators is a co-creation, in which I am the director. It is not about pressing a button – and done it is. It is about exploring the complexity of this process, starting with…

It's not an April Fool's joke; it was an intentional effort to deceive the competition to highlight the fact that such competitions aren't well-prepared for the addition of AI to the artist's toolbelt. The artist refused the award, and declared it was their intent to highlight this concern.

What efforts like this are missing is publishing a cryptographic hash before engaging in the deception. Otherwise it can seem like the author intentionally decided to mislead but might have changed their intention after winning.

Publishing something openly like e1c7aa9150766bd5279b54951e3828ed9c19367af21f03f669eb586bd54c13b1 which can later be verified once "revealed".

    $ echo "I, CapableWeb, is gonna participate in Sony World Photography Award 2023 with a AI generated image in order to see if they are ready for AI generated images. 2023-04-14" | sha256sum

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

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Post by tivert »

Is this fake? He claims:

> I am very happy that I won the creative category of Sony World Photography Awards 2023 / Open Competition / Single Image.

But I don't see that photo on the competition's website under "Winners » Creative - 2023 Open competition":

https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/win...

Edit: it looks like it was taken down, but I didn't see the note about that because I was looking at https://web.archive.org/web/20230325205601/https://www.eldag... that was linked in the top comment.

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

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Post by capableweb »

tivert wrote: post #47

Is this fake? He claims: > I am very happy that I won the creative category of Sony World Photography Awards 2023 / Open Competition / Single Image. But I don't see that photo on the competition's website under "Winners » Creative - 2023 Open competition": https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/win... Edit: it looks like it was taken down, but I didn't see the note about that because I was looking a…

Further down the article there is an update that they removed the image from the competition after he revealed it was AI generated.

Edit: actually, at the top it's mentioned:

    >>>>>>>>>>>UPDATE 14.3.23 / 10 AM CET
    As photolari.com reports, my image and name have now been taken off the SWPA webpage. Hope an official statement will follow.

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

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Post by shadowgovt »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #31
brookst wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what about those cheaters who set up lights, or put makeup on models?

You probably already know about Dogme 95, but for anybody who doesn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95 I can imagine more ideas of purity like this emerging as a consequence.

Amazing.

This reads like a Nuzlocke Challenge for cinematography.

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