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A game designer sparked controversy after submitting an image created by an AI text-to-image generator to a state art competition and winning first prize.
Jason Allen entered the work titled "Spatial Opera Theater" in the "Digital Arts/Digital Manipulated Photography" category of the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition, but created the piece using a Popular text-to-image AI generator named Midjourney.
A Twitter post describing Allen's victory went viral earlier this week (and was first covered by Vice). The post sparked a strong reaction, with many users claiming that Allen was misleading in submitting the article, especially since most of the public is unaware of how AI text-to-image generators work. Allen, however, defended his actions.
“I wanted to make a statement using artificial intelligence-based artwork,” he told Pueblo Chieftain. “I feel like I accomplished that and I’m not going to apologize for it.” (The Verge reached out to Allen via private message but received no response at the time of publication.)
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