An AI-generated artwork’s state fair victory fuels arguments over ‘what art is’ — from theverge.com by James Vincent; with thanks to Paul Czarapata for this resource on Twitter
I’m not going to apologize for it,’ said the man who submitted the piece
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A game designer has sparked controversy after submitting an image created by an AI text-to-image generator to a state art competition and taking home first prize.

Jason Allen entered the artwork titled “Theatre d’Opera Spatial” in the “Digital Arts / Digitally-Manipulated Photography” category of the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition but created the piece using a popular text-to-image AI generator named Midjourney.