Recently, a scandal broke out in a photography salon in Japan:The work that won the first prize was generated by AI. The organizer originally awarded the first prize to a photo titled "This is my head!" 》(俺の头だぞ!)’s photography captured the funny moment of a dragonfly lightly landing on a frog’s head, and was highly praised by the judges as"A masterpiece of incredible charm and intimacy".
The original judges believed that the work "showed the wonders of nature with solid photography techniques and ingenious composition", so it stood out from 743 entries and was published in the Saitama edition of the Asahi Shimbun and exhibited at the Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in September.
Soon after, some netizens questioned that the photo "looked like a free AI-generated image".Some people even searched for almost identical pictures with copyright-free AI-generated watermarks using keywords on the photo gallery website Dreamstime..
After the incident, the winner later admitted that the work was not taken personally but was an image generated by AI. The organizer urgently revoked his qualification on the 8th.
The organizer stated that the reason for canceling the award was that the winner had submitted a work that was not his own creation.He also emphasized that relevant regulations for AI image competition will be developed in the future to prevent similar disputes from happening again..
