Artist Tries to Prove Work Wasn’t Generated by AI, Fails
November 27th, 2023Via: Hackaday:
For digital artist [Mizkai], this problem has already become very real. [Mizkai] entered an illustration contest in October, penning a Halloween scene with a young witch. After submission though, things went awry. “At first they said they suspected I had traced AI work as my style was inconsistent,” [Mizkai] told Hackaday. Trying to rectify the issue in good faith, [Mizkai] elected to try and sort the problem out with the competition organizers. “I said I’m happy to cooperate and provide them with evidence,” says [Mizkai], noting that she provided an original Photoshop file with layers intact, indicating she’d created the piece from scratch. When that wasn’t enough, [Mizkai] provided a range of other artworks including pencil drawings and inked pieces to bear out her case that she was indeed a real artist. When that wasn’t enough, she stepped up to providing time lapse videos of character sketches to show her technique.
After that, [Mizkai] says the panel allowed her entry to proceed with the voting process, only to backflip a short time later. “Only after the voting had closed, they decided to contact me again to say that they were disqualifying my entry as there was insufficient evidence,” says [Miskai].
