Happy birthday to Harper Lee (1926-2016), whose first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies!
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Friday, April 21, 2023
The curious case of losing an art competition to AI
Hyperallergic's Rhea Nayyar details the story of German photographer Boris Eldagsen:
Could you imagine losing an art competition to a robot? It’s happened before, and it happened again when Boris Eldagsen, a career photographer from Berlin, Germany, submitted an AI-generated image for the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA) under the Creative category. Eldagsen claims that he disclosed to both Sony and the competition organizer, Creo Arts, that his work was made using AI, but neither would outright acknowledge it until he took matters into his own hands.
To toot my own horn, I sorta, kinda predicted this waaaay back in 2003 in this post.
Listen to NPR's Scott Detrow talks with photographer Boris Elgadsen about this issue.