{"id":18319,"date":"2022-09-04T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/ai-created-art-wins-colorado-state-fair-competition\/"},"modified":"2022-09-04T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T17:34:31","slug":"ai-created-art-wins-colorado-state-fair-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/ai-created-art-wins-colorado-state-fair-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-created art win\u2019s Colorado State Fair competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">As all sectors in life become more and more inundated with the digital realm, we will of course keep seeing one of the same questions popping up in the art world\u2014is art made by artificial intelligence really art? The hot topic has sprung up once again after the Colorado State Fair\u2019s art competition with an AI-created artwork and ended up receiving first place with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jason Allen, a game designer, had the text-to-image software Midjourney create three pieces which he submitted to the Colorado State Fair\u2019s art competition priced at $750 each. Withholding the fact that they were created by AI, the piece Th\u00e9\u00e2tre D\u2019op\u00e9ra Spatial won first prize\u2014a science-fantasy scene viewed from behind of three figures in red and white flowing garments that appear on a platform, one taking an operatic position and seemingly performing with a radiant, circular portal gleaming across the space, centring the image.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clearly, Allen had intent with this submission, claiming on his Discord server \u201cI\u2019ve set out to make a statement using Midjourney in a competitive manner.\u201d And there is certainly nothing wrong with creating works using AI\u2014or AI\u2019s creating artwork, which seems more the case here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.art-critique.com\/en\/2021\/10\/ai-da-the-artist-robot-and-ais-place-in-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">as well as in concerted efforts such as Ai-Da<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yYTjyfYb0qY\" target=\"_blank\">But there does seem to be a nihilistic and adversarial tinge to his motivations,<\/a> taking a flippant tone in interviews and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/02\/technology\/ai-artificial-intelligence-artists.html\" target=\"_blank\">stating \u201cArt is dead\u2026 It\u2019s over. AI won. Humans lost.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The judge for the Colorado State Fair has maintained that he still would have given the work first place on visual merit alone. There has been discussion of there being new categories implemented in competitions to separate AI-created art from human-created art, something even Allen suggested in the wake of this.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But the question of whether human art is over is a relatively absurd one. An inherent limitation of all AI\u2014as set out in the evergreen logic of Douglas Hofstadter in the seminal Godel, Escher, Bach\u2014is that it cannot think beyond the parameters by which its human creators have set down for it. Even a learning AI will always be limited in its inability to step outside of its processes to think truly outside the box. In this way, creative AI will only ever be able to make within their defined contexts, and it is not feasible that any will be powerful enough to create across the entire spectrum of what is capable of humans to produce accurate results to the degree that humans will be rendered obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But even if such an AI was the case\u2014any artist that would throw down their brush is an artist of little heart. There will always be a hand, whether of flesh or code, that can create in a way near-identical to your own. That is no reason to do away with the process of letting ideas flow from the mind to the world to share in the act of creation; it will always be a vital and celebrated aspect of humanity, even long after this world loses any form of AI. Jason Allen and Midjourney\u2019s victory in no way compromises the sanctity of art, nor the Colorado State Fair.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As all sectors in life become more and more inundated with the digital realm, we will of course keep seeing one of the same questions popping up in the art world\u2014is art made by artificial intelligence really art? 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