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This is all addressed in the article. (1) He says specifically that he intended it as a stunt (2) He didn't edit any image with AI, he generated it from nothi
by ratg13 4y ago
This is all addressed in the article.
(1) He says specifically that he intended it as a stunt
(2) He didn't edit any image with AI, he generated it from nothing with text.
As it was intended to be a photo competition, he felt that AI images don't deserve to win "photography" competitions.
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Often the only way to secure anything is to try and break it. This is what we do with penetration testing in technology systems.
The problem is that the organizers aren't being proactive, so sometimes the only next step is some grey-hat stepping in to wave a big flag and saying, "hey, you might want to fix this"
- KyeRussell 4y agoUhhh, “is this box poppable” is a whole lot less subjective than this.
- tinus_hn 4y agoThe question remains, if you think your image is not a photo, why submit it to a photography contest?
- haswell 4y agoI don’t think this question does remain. The answer is: to help other people understand that the image is not a photo. The point of a stunt like this is to prove that a non-photo can win a photography contest, and to highlight how absurd that is.
- tinus_hn 4y agoRuining someone else’s contest just to make your point is what people would call a ‘douche move’.
- haswell 4y agoMost forms of protest must by definition cause inconvenience in the short term to create the possibility of positive change in the long term. Would it have been better if someone had earnestly submitted an AI “photo” and accepted the prize quietly instead? Reducing this to just a “douche move” seems to miss the forest for the trees. The contest will cease to exist or at minimum cease to have any value/meaning if AI submissions become the norm. An alternate framing is that such a form of protest is a necessary inoculation to prevent infinite “douche moves” going forward.
- tinus_hn 4y agoIt’s a douche move because it’s ruining something that is based on trust by betraying that trust. That’s not a challenge, it’s not helping anyone, it’s not high and mighty, it’s just that, a douche move. Look at how much praise athletes got by proving they could win contests using doping. They got none because it’s a douche move, even if it’s technically not illegal it’s still cheating, even if they never pick up the prize it’s still ruining the contest. Everyone can imagine you can win a race on doping, nobody learned anything.