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It’s easy to imagine the text prompt Miles Astray entered into an image-generating AI tool to get his wild photo of a flamingo looking like a headless ball of pink fluff on spindly legs. The photo just won two awards in the AI category of an international photo competition.
“After seeing recent instances of AI-generated imagery outshining actual photos in competitions, it occurred to me that I could twist this story inside down and upside out the way only a human could and would, by submitting a real photo into an AI competition,” Astray. He saw the shot, titled “Flamingone,” as the perfect candidate for the job “because it's a surreal and almost unimaginable shot, and yet completely natural. It is the first real photo to win an AI award.
“I don't process my images much and usually only to correct whatever the camera didn't capture authentically,” Astray said in an email. “I like to show the world as is.” Astray calls the decision to disqualify him from the competition “completely justified and right,” and added that the organization’s support for his intended message surprised and heartened him.
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