A human being has won first seat at an art competitor at the Colorado State Fair , using an artificial intelligence ( AI)-generated image . Jason Allen – who go by the username Sincarnate on Discord – announced on theMidjourney channelthat he had won the Colorado State Fair hunky-dory arts competition , in the digital arts class .

" After a one calendar month hiatus , I have recall with an exciting announcement about my personal project I ’ve made using Midjourney , " he severalise the line , devote to image - generating AI Midjourney .

" I have been explore a exceptional prompt that I will be publishing at a later date , I have created hundred of images using it , and after many weeks of fine tuning and curating my gens , I chose my top three and had them printed on canvas after upscaling with Gigapixel A.I. "

Using these images , he was asked to infix the competition in the digital artistic production category after he informed them the piece wasmade using a computer . Allen , whoruns tabletop fantasy game companyIncarnate Games , append that he informed the competition that it was made by “ Jason Allen via Midjourney " .

" I ’ve sic out to make a statement using Midjourney in a militant style and wow ! I could not be more excited about having won with my favorite piece of music : ' Theatre d’Opera Spatial ' . "

One of the judges in the competition – art historian Dagny McKinley – told the Washington Postthat they did not be intimate the piece was artificially return , but that she would have vote for it anyway , adding that Allen “ had a conception and a vision he brought to realness , and it ’s really a beautiful firearm . ”

Allen , though he defended the work as art , trace himselfas " not an artist " . On this peak , many artists agreed with him .

" Let ’s pretend AI art did n’t exist for a s . Someone charge an artist a bunch of prompting , the creative person does artistic production and sends it back to the person who indite the prompts . That person then enters the art into a contest under their own name and wins . That ’s unethical , " comical Bible artist Chris Shehanwrote on Twitter .

" The AI is not a someone , but the soul who generated it by typing words into the AI is not an artist . They created nothing . At best , they collaborated . A quislingism they can take credit for because there ’s no human on the other ending . This should not be allowed . It ’s terrible . "

Allen , meanwhile , point out to the The Washington Post that he spent 80 hours pluck the prompt input – which Midjourney turn into an image – going through more than 900 adaptation before he contract it correct . In some composition , he had to make further manual pinch using photoshop , including adding a foreland to someone the AI had take for finished while they were brainless .

Writing on Discord , he acknowledged that he was likely being criticise for a deficiency of effort or skill , but defended the body of work itself .

" What if we look at it from the other extreme point , what if an creative person made a wildly difficult and complicated serial of simplicity for create a musical composition , say , they made their art while hang up upside - down and being whipped while painting ( this is extreme . ) Should this creative person ’s body of work be evaluated differently than another artist that created the same piece ' normally'?“he wrote .

" I get it on what will become of this in the end , they are merely move to create an ' artificial intelligence art ' category I imagine for things like this . "