Artists boycotted this portrait prize over AI entries. Now they’re back to take them on
TL;DR
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.
Nauti's Take
Artists returning after a two year boycott to argue it out inside the work itself is the more productive path, and a genuine opportunity for the wider debate about AI images. The open question is criteria: without a disclosure rule for generative tools like Krea, juries judge pieces whose origin they cannot verify.
Art prizes and publishers should settle transparency rules before the next call for entries.
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