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My friend's kid won a school art contest with an AI image
It was last Tuesday when I saw the post on social media. My friend was so proud, showing off his son's 'art' that won first place at the middle school fair. I clicked the photo and it was clearly made by an AI, the kind with those weird, smooth textures and slightly off hands. The kid is 12. He typed a sentence into a free website and got a ribbon for it. The real kicker was seeing the other entries in the background of the picture, actual drawings and paintings by other kids who spent time on them. It just feels wrong to reward that. It's teaching the next generation that typing is the same skill as drawing. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing happen at local events?
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matthewmiller10d ago
That's a tough spot to be in. I've seen it happen at a library craft fair last year, a digital category that was basically just Midjourney outputs. The best move is to talk to the event organizers privately, not your friend. Frame it as a concern about the rules being clear for next time. Ask if they plan to add a "human-made" requirement or a separate AI category. It keeps the focus on fairness for all the kids who put in the actual work, which is the real issue here.
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violag8010d ago
Honestly, I get where you're coming from @matthewmiller, but talking to the organizers after the fact feels too late. The kid who did the real work already lost. The fair thing is to say something now, before prizes are given. It sets a bad example if we let it slide. The rules might not have been clear, but everyone knows it's not fair. We should be honest about what real skill is.
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