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

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lewis.brian3d agoMost Upvoted

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.anna3d 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_chen623d 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.