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Re:Artist refuses prize after his AI image wins at top photo... by ghaff on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:22PM (#35583171)
A lot of this predates generative AI. I know someone who used to be really into photography competitions and the like and he basically got discouraged because the photos he really worked on to get perfect right out of the camera were suddenly starting to lose to digital photos that had been enhanced in Photoshop in various ways.

Photos used for editorial purposes in newspapers and magazines at least historically had pretty strict rules about manipulation generally--including the removal of distracting elements that had nothing really to do with the core "truth" of the photo. I suppose the thinking was that manipulation can quickly become a slippery slope.

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Re:Artist refuses prize after his AI image wins at top photo... by Kye on Saturday April 15, 2023 @03:24PM (#35583768)
What wins photography competitions breaks assumptions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxcGBbLIwk

You're basically putting photos in front of people who've seen it all. They're not impressed by technical perfection or what gets 90+ on 500px.

edit: It's more likely your friend was losing out to people who could take more photos and be more experimental due to not being limited by the the cost of film or delay of development. Film can't touch digital's feedback loop.

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Re:Artist refuses prize after his AI image wins at top photo... by ghaff on Saturday April 15, 2023 @03:31PM (#35583836)
Probably true of a lot of things. Food, theatre, art generally... Well-executed versions of something they've seen a million times before just isn't all that interesting.
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