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Artists boycotted this portrait prize over AI entries. Now they’re back to take them on
After two years shunning the Brisbane portrait prize, several artists are entering again, with some First Nations painters counting on another AI – ‘ancestral integrity’ – to help them win Poised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while she looks dreamily upward, as if to say “Who, me?” The woman in the red dress is Australian comedian Alice Fraser , as photographed on stage. The other women – generic superheroes and 1950s housewives – were created using the generative AI software Krea. Continue reading...
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After two years shunning the Brisbane portrait prize, several artists are entering again, with some First Nations painters counting on another AI – ‘ancestral integrity’ – to help them win Poised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while she looks dreamily upward, as if to say “Who, me?” The woman in the red dress is Australian comedian Alice Fraser , as photographed on stage. The other women – generic superheroes and 1950s housewives – were created using the generative AI software Krea. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Artists boycotted this portrait prize over AI entries. Now they’re back to take them on, After two years shunning the Brisbane portrait prize, several artists are entering again, with some First Nations painters counting on another AI – ‘ancestral integrity’ – to help them win Poised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while she looks dreamily upward, as if to say “Who, me?” The woman in the red dress is Australian comedian Alice Fraser , as photographed on stage. The other women – generic superheroes and 1950s housewives – were created using the generative AI software Krea. Continue reading…
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