{"id":9675,"date":"2023-04-18T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/ai-isnt-a-threat-boris-eldagsen-whose-fake-photo-duped-the-sony-judges-hits-back\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:37:40","slug":"ai-isnt-a-threat-boris-eldagsen-whose-fake-photo-duped-the-sony-judges-hits-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/ai-isnt-a-threat-boris-eldagsen-whose-fake-photo-duped-the-sony-judges-hits-back\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI isn\u2019t a threat\u2019 \u2013 Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German artist caused uproar this week when he revealed the shot that won a prestigious award wasn\u2019t what it seemed. But, he insists, AI isn\u2019t about sidelining humans \u2013 it\u2019s about liberating artists<\/p>\n

Since 52-year-old German artist Boris Eldagsen went public with the fact that he won a Sony world photography award with an AI-generated image<\/a>, relations between him and the award body have soured. Sony have issued a statement, saying: \u201cWe no longer feel we are able to engage in a meaningful and constructive dialogue with him.\u201d His website<\/a> reads: \u201cSony: Stop saying nonsense!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why they behaved like this,\u201d he says, speaking to me from Berlin on the morning after the controversy broke. But I have a fair idea: plainly, they feel like they were conned, and had their aesthetic discernment called into question. If you can\u2019t tell the difference between a photograph and an AI-generated image, then you may as well go home. But maybe both parties are being both too hard and too easy on themselves. Maybe, when done well enough, AI images can\u2019t be distinguished from photography by anybody. And yet, as Eldagsen says, \u201cI love photography, I love generating images with AI, but I\u2019ve realised, they\u2019re not the same. One is writing with light, one is writing with prompts. They are connected, the visual language was learned from photography, but now AI has a life of its own. If people want to be silent and not talk about that, that\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe German artist caused uproar this week when he revealed the shot that won a prestigious award wasn\u2019t what it seemed. But, he insists, AI isn\u2019t about sidelining humans \u2013 it\u2019s about liberating artists
\nSince 52-year-old German artist Boris Eldagsen went public with the fact that he won a Sony world photography award with an AI-generated image, relations between him and the award body have soured. Sony have issued a statement, saying: \u201cWe no longer feel we are able to engage in a meaningful and constructive dialogue with him.\u201d His website reads: \u201cSony: Stop saying nonsense!\u201d
\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why they behaved like this,\u201d he says, speaking to me from Berlin on the morning after the controversy broke. But I have a fair idea: plainly, they feel like they were conned, and had their aesthetic discernment called into question. If you can\u2019t tell the difference between a photograph and an AI-generated image, then you may as well go home. But maybe both parties are being both too hard and too easy on themselves. Maybe, when done well enough, AI images can\u2019t be distinguished from photography by anybody. And yet, as Eldagsen says, \u201cI love photography, I love generating images with AI, but I\u2019ve realised, they\u2019re not the same. One is writing with light, one is writing with prompts. They are connected, the visual language was learned from photography, but now AI has a life of its own. If people want to be silent and not talk about that, that\u2019s wrong.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The German artist caused uproar this week when he revealed the shot that won a prestigious award wasn\u2019t what it seemed. But, he insists, AI isn\u2019t about sidelining humans \u2013 it\u2019s about liberating artists Since 52-year-old German artist Boris Eldagsen went public with the fact that he won a Sony world photography award with an …<\/p>\n

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