The FRIGHTENING World of Art Competitions

Mohammed agbadi talking about the pokemon art situation, art theft, and how art competitions are getting worse.

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[KaeMcSpadden]

When I participated in Lightbox Expo’s paint a thon, we had to submit WIP images, color studies, character designs, rough sketches and whatnot, and the judges would drop in once in a while over discord to see how things are going. We need more rules and regulations to help reduce cheating.

[maceygarrett]

AI has gotten so bad that my mom asked me why I was pursuing a degree in Studio Art instead of AI art because she thought it was a legitimate career path for artists. I hope that colleges don't make classes for AI art!

[Mochaa-]

I saw a news article where a piece was disqualified from an ai photography contest because it was real 🤦🏾

[triggerfairy]

Worse part, the guy didnt even bother to use less obvious same looking name and the judges let it slip.

[_vikvik]

People who enter an ART contest with an GENERATED "artwork" are something I'll never understand.
It's rather sad that now we have to make sure something wasn't generated by AI, even Speeddraws or the drawing process can be generated in the near future. Just sad.

Edit: Guys, I wasn't asking for an explanation, of course I understand why people use AI instead of drawing; it saves time, resources, etc. "Never understanding [something]" is just a way to phrase how stupid you find something, atleast where I come from.😭

[nor-MAL-cy]

It's honestly disappointing knowing that real artists are pushed aside for the fake AI arts with no attempt put into it.

[lodeisho]

Losing against awesome artists because I lack the skilzz? Applause. Losing against AI bros? No my man get that shit outta here.

[eliteunicorns]

What gets me is there seems to be no authentication. One guy shows up six times and no one bothered to check this?!
What really gets me is I keep seeing artists on social media who didn't make the top 300 and yet he did...six times!

[VinnyM-tvnb]

The same guy does multiple submissions and they're AI 😢 TO WIN A CONTEST 😢 . We should call out these fake artists till they hide and our COMMUNITY REGAINS ITS LOVE FOR REAL ART.❤

[anony_apis]

art competitions should have a rule where you have to specify your medium/software or progress shots or smth like that

[Techyena]

17:04 i actually didn’t know they disqualified Vigen’s images, im so glad you mentioned it. What a RELIEF

[Think_]

They don't allow calculators in maths Olympiads, maybe they should think about adopting this same kind of rule.

[ZephrusPrime]

There should always be WIP submissions in these contests.

[Tasytot]

Pokemon announced a few days ago that they've disqualified the offenders and are picking new finalists to replace them!

[elihill]

Guess people will have to submit a timelapse or progress photos

[frownie_kittie]

Yess! I see this issue *everywhere*, thanks for talking about it

[AezlyndWanderin]

I think contests like this would do well to require artists show their process of creating the art. Videoing themselves painting / drawing would be one way and having them submit photographs of the art at various stages could be another way. They could even have a speed painting competition for the digital artists who would be given a tablet with something like procreate on it that would be connected to a giant monitor so that the audience could watch the art being created in real time.

[mojyoqueen]

AI is a paradox. I recently helped one women with her short essay. I was translating and correcting [basically fixing] an entire essay that was AI generated and AI translated, because it was so bad. And you know what was the essay about? It was about how good AI is. Right now artist are debunking and fixing AI "art", because it's bad. So why bother creating AI, if humans have to fix everything it does? It creates more problems than opportunities.

[incineroar]

The Pikachu at 9:00 in; the big water drop next to its face looks like an eye.

[zayn]

I'm honestly so sick of AI ruining everything. It should have never gotten this advanced.

It is gone from being an inconvenience to just a plague at this point 😑