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Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo (petapixel.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Disqualification seems appropriate. If it is against the rules to use AI photos in a normal photo category and the winner gets disqualified for that, which has happened, and it is against the rules to use a non-AI photo in this category, then the person should similarly be disqualified.

Not sure if the person behind this actually made the point they thought they were? Because it just shows that being consistent in rules and disqualification is good and the contest was consistent.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The stated point listed in the article was to prove that manual photography has merit and that 'nothing is more fascinating than Mother Nature herself', which he proved by winning the people's choice award. He didn't say the disqualification was inappropriate nor did he criticize the contest for inconsistent rules? It seems quite clear that he expected to be removed from the contest after making his statement, actually.

Personally I hope this doesn't become a trend of machine generation and manually shot/created work spoiling each other's contests.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So, does that mean that AI photos have merit when they win photo competitions, as has happened in the past? Seems like the point he was trying to make would go both ways.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, AI photos have their merit. I believe manual and ai generated photos are their own categories and can be appreciated seperately as such.

Why limit AI photos to being a clone of real photos? Push expression of the subconscious, the psychedelic, the eldritch, etc. Make something creatively unique from the photoreal, something manual photos would struggle to recreate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The monkey's paw curls....

Around hitlers dick

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

You're right. I'm trying to figure out what all the controversy is in this. I'm not seeing anything.