Théâtre_D'opéra_Spatial
Théâtre D'opéra Spatial
2022 artwork by Midjourney, prompted by Jason M. Allen
Théâtre D'opéra Spatial (French for "Space Opera Theater") is an image created by the generative artificial intelligence platform Midjourney, using prompts by Jason Michael Allen. The image won the 2022 Colorado State Fair's annual fine art competition in the photomanipulation category on September 5, becoming one of the first AI-generated images to win such a prize.[1][2]
Allen said he used at least 624 text prompts and input revisions to get Midjourney to create the image, which he then manipulated with Adobe Photoshop, and enlarged with the Gigapixel AI tool.[3]
He disclosed his use of Midjourney when he entered the image in the contest's category of "digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography". The two judges for the category later said they didn't know that Midjourney used artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images, but that they would have awarded Allen the top prize anyway.[2]
Some artists accused Allen of cheating.[4] He responded: "I'm not going to apologize for it. I won, and I didn't break any rules."[2]