An artificial-intelligence (AI) generated picture won first place in the Colorado State Fair’s fine arts competition in September. The painting in question was created with Midjourney, a text-to-image generator that converts a text prompt into digital art. Canadian artists who spoke to Global News said AI still has a long way to go before it might be able to really replace artists and designers, and said while AI-generated images are impressive, they lack “the human touch” Artists and designers took many years to learn how to organize images to convey a very specific mood or message, said Olivia Hamza, a concept artist at Montreal-based company Panache Digital Games. However, there has been some fear that AI is going to take away the work from some artists. . . .
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