Author Topic: Master Troll Award - AI Image wins Sony photo contest (Read 1828 times)

Uncle Pete · « **on:** April 18, 2023, 10:43 »

This is a setup by him. He should get a master troll award. It's sad to see comments saying things like, it's about time someone stood up for us photographers. He's not doing that. He's not against AI images. He's selling workshops on how to make them.

The best review of all of the circus is on Petapixel. https://petapixel.com/2023/04/14/artist-refuses-prize-after-his-ai-image-wins-at-top-photo-contest/

The guy paid his own way to the awards, forced his way on stage and is making a splash on his Blog about the whole thing. Took shots of the event just to attract attention and create controversy, but not about AI vs real photos, but to market his workshop on using AI generators.

His Workshop: https://www.eldagsen.com/new-website-promptwhispering-ai-creative-professional-use-of-ai-image-generators/
Creative & professional use of AI image generators

One of his older workshops was EyeEm! Invited by EyeEm Berlin, and co-organised by PhotoWerkBerlin, I was happy to give a one-hour lecture to an audience of 80 photo enthusiasts.

However a good point, AI images are what they are, they should not be sold or marketed as Photographs. They can be an area of art on their own. Sony should have disqualified him the second he revealed it was AI and not a real photograph. You don't enter a chalk drawing in an oil painting competition. Intentional bating the issue and trolling for personal publicity.

Mimi the Cat · « **Reply #1 on:** April 18, 2023, 11:28 »

Personally the judges must have been pretty dense not to notice the oddness of this "picture" I spotted AI before I even read the article.

cobalt · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2023, 12:15 »

We just had a required ai class for lecturers with him.

I think he is right to point it all out like this.

Even if he is promoting his class, it is still important for the overall discussion.

ouatedeP · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2023, 05:25 »

Quote from: Mimi the Cat on April 18, 2023, 11:28

Personally the judges must have been pretty dense not to notice the oddness of this "picture" I spotted AI before I even read the article.

they did. But he lied about his part of the work, from article above

"Update on 4/18/23: World Photography Organisation tells Motherboard that while it was aware that AI was used to create the image, Boris had “deliberately” misled them by telling them it was “co-created” with AI. Here’s a statement provided by a spokesperson:

"The Creative category of the Open competition welcomes various experimental approaches to image making from cyanotypes and rayographs to cutting-edge digital practices. As such, following our correspondence with Boris and the warranties he provided, we felt that his entry fulfilled the criteria for this category, and we were supportive of his participation. […]

We recognise the importance of this subject and its impact on image-making today. We look forward to further exploring this topic via our various channels and programmes and welcome the conversation around it. While elements of AI practices are relevant in artistic contexts of image-making, the Awards always have been and will continue to be a platform for championing the excellence and skill of photographers and artists working in the medium.""

Uncle Pete · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2023, 10:58 »

Using the visual language of the 1940s, Boris Eldagsen produces his images as fake memories of a past, that never existed, that no one photographed. These images were imagined by language and re-edited more between 20 to 40 times through AI image generators, combining ‘inpainting’, ‘outpainting’, and ‘prompt whispering’ techniques.

“Just as photography replaced painting in the reproduction of reality, AI will replace photography. Don’t be afraid of the future. It will just be more obvious that our mind always created the world that makes it suffer.”

Boris Eldagsen

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