> “I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives,” Astray tells PetaPixel over email.<p>Sometimes I don't really "get" the art, but everything about this is [chef's kiss].
That actually makes sense - and partially an admission that AI can't compete with real artists yet. It's like a pro sending a picture to an event that only allows amateurs.
It seems to me that this artist is just proving even more that we're art the stage where AI-generated art generally can't be distinguished from real-world art. This artist submitted a very thought-provoking work (still having a hard time thinking of that picture as a bird myself), and that's what won them the contest. It could just as easily have been generated.
Disrespectful to the AI art medium.<p>I don't want to see art from someone who has spent a hundred thousand hours looking at the real world.<p>I want to see art from someone who has spent a hundred thousand hours looking at AI medium output<p>For you see, the second artist will be quite mad. The first artist is just a pretentious fake who has not destroyed their own mind.