A.I. Art is Winning Art Competitions. - TalkLinked #11, Sept. 1, 2022.

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NEWS SOURCES: 

 

Synthetic media artist Jason Allen won the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition in the Digital Arts category

 

Initial Tweet

 

Vice article 

 

Allen used Midjourney

Using a “special prompt that he will be publishing at a later date”

Allen is also president of tabletop gaming company Incarnate Games

 

In his defense, Allen says he labelled submission “Jason Allen via Midjourney”

 

Redditor suggests making artists document creation process for such competitions

 

“The death of artistry” https://twitter.com/OmniMorpho/status/1564782875072872450

 

Being Used Now?

Midjourney-generated image of Alex Jones used for Atlantic Article 

MidJourney assets used for bullet hell game 

 

Many generators

StarryAI

StableDiffusion - “uncensored”, immediately used for porn on 4chan

 

Music

People have been experimenting with AI-generated music for some time, and it’s gotten REALLY good

 

Although for the best ones, the AI doesn’t directly generate the sounds - MIDI files 

There ARE AI music generators that directly produce audio, but usually sounds trash

There’s even commercial services like Soundful https://soundful.com/

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This episode was really good, it's funny how people used to say if machines do all our jobs we would have more time for art, at this rate we will have nothing left to do