# At what point does art no longer counts as art?

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**Published on:** 2022-12-12
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This AI generated artwork won first place at a competition, and it raised so many questions and furore in the process.Someone submitted an AI-generated art and won First Prize at a fine art competition, and the internet is on fire. So a bloke entered his art piece in the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition. The catch is that he used AI to generate the digital piece. “Jason Allen, who is president of Colorado-based tabletop gaming company Incarnate Games. According to the state fair’s website, he won in the digital art category with a work called “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial.” The image, which Allen printed on canvas for submission, is gorgeous. It depicts a strange scene that looks like it could be from a space opera, and it looks like a masterfully done painting. Classical figures in a Baroque hall stare through a circular viewport into a sun-drenched and radiant landscape.” The art itself is really quite beautiful and imaginative. What software you might ask? Midjourney.Some of Midjourney’s work are simply astonishing and bewildering.Its a fairly new startup that allows users to describe and prompt the AI to digital enhance, create and beautify graphics. To be fair, the results are quite ravishing. If another ha a paid account or is a user, let me know what you think! Some art work are truly inspiring and magnificent. Who cares if they were done by humans or AI! So is Ai-generated not art? Well, considering the authorities at the competition noted his use of the AI and allowed the win, it should be legit. See as technology improves and AI gets better each day, it will be increasingly hard to distinguish what is human and what is not.How will we be able to differentiate human vs AI art? Wait..should we?It is a digital art competition, so are digital tools not allowed then? Can we ban photoshop, canva and other digital art tools? If we allow these, then what’s the difference between those and AI-assisted tools like Midjourney and Dall-e? Objectively, it still took a lot of effort to get from putting in prompts on Midjourney to the final state. “Allen created 900 image variations on the theme of “space opera theater” by feeding a text prompt into AI image generator Midjourney. He then edited his favorite creations in Adobe Photoshop (like editing in a head Midjourney forgot), and sharpened the quality using another machine-learning tool before printing them out on canvas.” You can say the artist did put in the work I guess? So then at what point does art no longer counts as art, especially when technology and tools are involved.Ai generated artwork like this city scape piece is so mesmerizing yet it makes us wonder how far can we push it?Perhaps there will be a whole new category for AI-assisted digital art then. Then policing it will be a whole new challenge. How can one tell affirmatively, if a digital piece is edited/created/designed by humans or AI or a mix? This raises so many juicy questions and opportunities too. All I know is, this is great marketing for Midjourney and I bet they will see a huge spike in new users over the weeks! - Do you consider Ai-generated art as art? - #startups #business #startupx #growth #success #socialmedia #culture #entrepreneurship #eth #btc #crypto #aigenerated #midjourney #dalle #ai #artificialintelligence #artcompetition #art #firstplace

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