Dear MidJourney, Who Were Your Influences? (AI Art)

MidJourney is the name of the AI art generator which scanned thousands of human-completed works on the internet to help user Jason Allen compose a picture which beat out other human-made entries to win the a state fair art competition prize.

The Pueblo Chieftan newspaper reported the event. The Colorado State Fair defines "digital art" as "artistic practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process." They then imply Allen's entry is digital art, period.

But the MidJourney software creates something which exceeds that definition of digital art.

A strictly digital art tool such as Gimp or Inkscape provides stripped-down paint stroke commands for a human to use to create a picture, from scratch. MidJourney uses human-completed pictures and words that describe them to help a human create a new picture.

So which human-completed paintings or photographs helped MidJourney *and* Jason Allen compose his Space Opera picture? The Pueblo Chieftan article didn't say.


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Further Reading:

'Someone had to be first: Pueblo artist criticized after AI painting wins at Colorado State Fair:   pueblochieftan.com





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