AI Art Wins Competition And Sparks Controversy

Jason Allen's art created on Midjourney titled “Space Opera Theater”

This may be the first time that an AI generated art piece has won first place at an art competition, and that changes everything.

Jason M. Allen submitted an art piece at the Colorado State Fair Art show titled ‘Theatre D’Opera Spatial’ or Space Opera Theater which was created using MidJourney, a text-to-image AI program. It was one of three pieces he submitted, and it won first…