A win for humans, if you will
June 19, 2024 12:12 PM Subscribe
A surreal but entirely real photograph called 'Flamingone' by Miles Astray (real name, I kid you not) impressed judges of the prestigious 1839 photo contest to be awarded bronze and claim the people's vote award, which comes with a cash prize. Trouble for the contest organizers is that Astray's winning image was entered into a newly formed AI category.
I wonder if it would have counted if he'd trained a model specifically to just produce a pixel perfect copy of the photo. See? AI magic dust got sprinkled on it, the bits are the correct color!
posted by BungaDunga at 12:34 PM on June 19 [5 favorites]
posted by BungaDunga at 12:34 PM on June 19 [5 favorites]
judges not only placed third but it also won the People’s Vote Award.
Soooooo.... humans came in third after two AIs and people in general can't tell the difference between real and AI.
Got it.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 12:43 PM on June 19 [2 favorites]
Soooooo.... humans came in third after two AIs and people in general can't tell the difference between real and AI.
Got it.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 12:43 PM on June 19 [2 favorites]
*returns to Dostoevsky*
posted by HearHere at 12:48 PM on June 19 [1 favorite]
posted by HearHere at 12:48 PM on June 19 [1 favorite]
The judges failed the Gnirut Test.
posted by JHarris at 6:05 PM on June 19 [2 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 6:05 PM on June 19 [2 favorites]
big W for Miles Astray and actual photographers. fuck an AI "photography" contest.
posted by tovarisch at 2:23 AM on June 20 [2 favorites]
posted by tovarisch at 2:23 AM on June 20 [2 favorites]
Nice work, Miles Astray. This is a well-played bit of light troublemaking, I appreciate it.
Also: I do love photos that manage to reveal the actual strangeness of world - the oddity that exists just beyond modern humans' legibility-filtering tendencies (headless flamingos!). If AI, in its not-exactly-human-thought ways, enables humans to open up that territory a bit more, I'll consider it a small good thing.
posted by marlys at 7:56 AM on June 20
Also: I do love photos that manage to reveal the actual strangeness of world - the oddity that exists just beyond modern humans' legibility-filtering tendencies (headless flamingos!). If AI, in its not-exactly-human-thought ways, enables humans to open up that territory a bit more, I'll consider it a small good thing.
posted by marlys at 7:56 AM on June 20
These are all human judges though, right? That's like Team USA figure skaters impressing a panel of judges all from the United States. Now if we can win a contest judged by a panel of LLM chatbots, human photographers will know we've really made it.
posted by straight at 10:32 AM on June 20
posted by straight at 10:32 AM on June 20
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posted by HearHere at 12:22 PM on June 19 [1 favorite]