HISPI Project Cerebellum
AI Incidents

GAN Artwork Won First Place at State Fair Competition

August 29, 2022

An artwork generated using generative AI won first place in the digital arts category of the Colorado State Fair's art competition, which raised concerns surrounding labor displacement and unfair competition.
Alleged deployer
jason-allen
Alleged developer
midjourney
Alleged harmed parties
artists-submitting-in-the-digital-arts-category, digital-artists, artists

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/369

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.