A photographer was disqualified from a competition in which only images with Artificial Intelligence (AI) should have been included for using an image without this tool.
According to what international publications explain, this is Miles Astray, who submitted a photograph to the 1839 Color Photography Awards competition, in the AI category.
“I wanted to show that nature can still beat machines and that there is still real merit that is produced by real creatives”, he explained to the publication PetaPixel.
And the photographer's objective, who submitted an image of a flamingo in an unusual position, was actually fulfilled - before the revelation that the image had not been submitted to AI, it won 3rd place in the category, as well as being the most voted by popular vote.
“After seeing recent cases of AI-generated images beating real photographs in competitions, I started thinking about turning the story around and its implications by presenting a real photo in an AI competition,” he explained. This is the case, for example, of photographer Boris Eldagsen who, last year, won a competition in the Creativity category of the Sony World Photography Award.
The German photographer refused to accept the prize, pointing out that he decided to compete with the image to “find out if competitions are prepared for images created by AI”. And he concluded: “They are not.”
Photographer Miles Astray pointed out that content manufactured by Artificial Intelligence “is a big topic now” and that the issue should be debated.
"I'm happy to see that this experience confirmed my hypothesis: there is nothing more fantastic and creative than Mother Nature herself", he said.
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