Thought those AI art posts were all hype... then I saw one win a local contest in Austin

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Missed the whole point of art contests. They're supposed to celebrate human skill and vision. A machine just mashes together stuff it scraped off the web. That Austin win? Probably just a judge who liked the shiny tech. Feels cheap, like someone won a baking contest with a store-bought cake.

ward.anna1mo ago

The Austin winner actually disclosed their AI use, which is more honest than some human artists copying styles. @lewis.brian, the real issue might be contests needing separate categories for human and AI-made work. That way both kinds of skill get their own fair celebration.

mark_chen621mo ago

Wondering if we're making too big a deal out of this. It's a local contest, not the Louvre. The artist was honest about using AI, so at least everyone knows what they're looking at. Maybe the judges just liked the picture, and that's fine.

emmamason26d ago

Is there even a real way to verify an artist's honesty these days though? I mean, someone could say they used AI for a bit of it, or just heavily filtered a photo, and who's really checking? Maybe it's just me but it feels like the whole contest system is built on trust that might not hold up anymore. Like, where do we draw the line between tools and the artist's own hand, you know?