Jason Allen—a synthetic media artist whose Midjourney-generated work "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" went viral and incited backlash after winning a state fair art competition—is not giving up ...

Jason M. Allen’s “Theatre D’Opera Spatial” first won top honors at the 2022 Colorado State Fair. ... Despite this, Allen said he remains committed to defending AI-assisted art.

On Thursday, artist Jason M. Allen requested that a Colorado federal court reverse a U.S. copyright office decision to reject copyright protection for an award-winning image he made using AI.

Jason Allen says he entered 624 meticulously-crafted prompts into AI image generator Midjourney to create Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, French for “space opera theater,” a depiction of a ...

Allen’s lawyer, recently claimed that Allen had worked hard on his digital illustration. “In our case, Jason had an extensive dialogue with the AI tool, Midjourney, to create his work, and we ...

It was later revealed to be an AI-generated image created by Allen. “This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told The New York Times at the time. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. AI won. Humans ...

Jason Allen, the AI "artist" whose image he created with Midjourney won a fine arts competition two years ago, is still mad that the government won't let him copyright his opus — and, in an ...

B ack in 2022 when AI image generators were novel and interesting, a piece of AI art gained some notoriety after it won a ...

Allen told the office that he created the art with the generative AI system Midjourney by testing hundreds of prompt iterations, and altered it with Adobe Photoshop.

As we reach the end of the year, it's time to look back at some of the key moments in AI art in 2024, from the good to the bad and the just plain ugly. For more on the topic, see our history of AI ...