Controversy erupts over prize awarded to AI-generated art

Critics say the text to image system pose a threat to the livelihoods of human artists.

A game designer has

after his artificial-intelligence-generated art piece won the top spot at a competition in the United States with critics calling the win a threat to human artists everywhere.

Jason M Allen, 39, and his Theatre D’opera Spatial image beat more than a dozen other entries in the “digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography” category at the Colorado State…