![]() ![]() It also got me thinking about whether design awards were vulnerable to this approach too. This event sparked outrage within the photography community, and one can only assume that the Sony World Photography Awards’ credibility took a sizeable hit. Following Eldagsen’s admission, they immediately took back his award and removed the entry from their website… but what’s truly baffling is that these AI tools have existed for over a year, and have been a hot topic of discussion for the better part of that year… so how did the entire awards program not prepare for this? The Sony World Photography Awards just announced that they’re open for their 2024 edition, and the website simply lists that “Computer generated content cannot be the origin of the Entry”, with little mention of how they’re going to distinguish human-captured photos from AI-generated ones, especially given how stunningly realistic AI text-to-image models have got in the last few months. The Award’s response was swift, but not swift enough. On his website, Eldagsen issued a statement refusing to accept the award, saying that he “applied as a cheeky monkey” to find out if competitions would be prepared for AI images to enter. The controversial part is that he won the award, having somehow skirted scrutiny by Sony and even its esteemed jury panel. Boris Eldagsen, a German photographer, admitted to using an AI-based image generator to create an image that he then enrolled for the Sony World Photography Awards. By ‘obvious’, I mean a controversy surrounding the use of AI tools, which have seen a dramatic rise in popularity since last year. ![]() ![]() On the 16th of April this year, the obvious happened. All snippets are inserted in “quotes” for your convenience. The views in this article belong solely to the writer and aren’t representative of the design competitions themselves. Disclaimer: This article comprises snippets from interviews with organizers of a few leading design competitions. ![]()
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