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The Ethics of AI Generated Art

Chances are you’ve already seen the headline (or some variation thereof):

“AI won an art contest, and artists are furious”

Here’s what happened: A Colorado man entered an art competition at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition in the category of “digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography”. The problem, however, was that he produced the image using Midjourney, an online…