#Boris Eldagsen

[mentaltimetraveller]

Boris Eldagsen

Pseudomnesia: The Electrician

Fake Memories

work in progress, 2022 – ongoing

[eucanthos]

Boris Eldagsen & AI

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Boris Eldagsen has accused the Sony World Photograph Awards of failing to distinguish between a photograph and his DALL-E 2-created image:

THE ELECTRICIAN, from the series PSEUDOMNESIA, courtesy of atist’s gallery  Photo Edition Berlin. More information about the work linked below.

Fake Memories work in progress, 2022 – ongoing

The image was imagined by language (?) and re-edited more between 20 to 40 times through AI image generators, combining “inpainting”, “outpainting” and “prompt whispering” techniques.

Sony World Photography Awards 2023

Dear SWPA / CREO,

that you now want to give the impression that you wanted a dialogue but i don’t is nonsense. Only after I suggested for the third time that a public discussion is necessary did you offer me a Q&A on your blog to be published before the award ceremony – which I happily said yes to.

I waited 22 days in vain for these questions.

Also, pretending that they you knew the picture was AI is wrong. I told one of your assistants in lenght, but then after the press release your PR executive contacted me, being suprised about all the inquiries regarding my image and asking for more info.

I think you have a communication problem in your team. And also a communication problem with the photo community.

Many of my questions in email communication over the last months have never been answered by SWPA.

Press enquiries about whether my image is AI have not been answered, instead they have been dismissed with a generic quote.

Enquiries from concerned photographers have never been answered. Enquiries from the non-English press about my rejection of the award were not answered.

It was only when the international photo community took up the issue on social media and discussed it so intensively that the Times and BBC inquired, that CREO stopped being silent...

[ "Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum." ]

https://www.eldagsen.com/pseudomnesia/

https://www.eldagsen.com/sony-world-photography-awards-2023/

https://www.photoeditionberlin.com/

[dospassos]

“The Key to Art History” Part I & II

[artistsagainstai23]

“Pseudomnesia,” by Boris Eldagsen

Image from: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-generated-image-world-photography-organization-contest-artist-declines-award-1234664549/

Boris submitted this to a photography contest and won, proceeding this he came out and forfeited his prize as he was proving a point that people cannot tell the difference between AI "art" and human made art. I personally felt like this piece was definitley AI made, it lacks a realistic tangible quality that I see in a lot of other photography. I think this source is a great example as to why artifical intelligence is harmful to the art world. What would have happened if he had not said it was AI made? There definitley have been people that have produced something using AI and not said anything. It feels very morally wrong.

[macmanx]

“Promptography” is what Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen calls his creative process. He inputs highly specific and deliberate text prompts into generative AI programs like DALL-E or Midjourney, and tweaks their outputs repeatedly to create thought-provoking photographs … or at least, what look like photographs. Senior video producer, Becca Farsace flies to Berlin to investigate how exactly Boris process works, how he’s fooled award shows, and what her final thoughts are on this new age of generative AI art.

[nextwavefutures]

From photography to “promptography”

From photography to “promptography”—the AI debate keeps rolling across the visual arts. New post at the next wave.

I’ve been meaning for some time to write about the AI-photo controversy involving the photographer Boris Eldagsen and the Sony World Photography Awards. The short version: Eldagsen is a photographer whose current work involves the (very sophisticated) use of AI to develop images that look like photos, but aren’t. He submitted one of these to the Sony World Photography Awards, and won a prize. He…

[ozcansimsek]

Ödül kazanan fotoğraf yapay zeka ürünü çıktı

Alman sanatçı Boris Eldagsen, Sony Dünya Fotoğrafçılık yarışmasında kazandığı ödülü geri çevirdi. Bu kare, hiç deklanşöre basılmadan üretildi ve yaratıcısı prestijli fotoğrafçılık ödülüne layık görüldü. Sony Dünya Fotoğrafçılık yarışması başvurularında, “herhangi bir cihaz” kullanılabilir ifadesi yer aldığını ve fotoğrafın üretim şekli hakkında ek bilgi verilmediğini vurgulayan Alman sanatçı…

[jinsei-pika-pika]

 Boris Eldagsen

[legendunltd]

The AI Artist Controversy: Should AI-Generated Images Be Allowed in Photography Competitions?"

Last year, there was a rise in the use of public-facing AI tools, and this has been the subject of many debates on what it should be used for. Recently, German artist Boris Eldagsen, won a prestigious photography competition in the creative open category of the Sony World Photography Awards with an image called Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, which he claimed was a co-creation of AI. The artist…

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Boris Eldagsen

[mosertone]

"Boris Eldagsen - Eternity, 2022."

[chrisfriel]

extinct 180423

after yesterdays Boris Eldagsen / sony award / fiasco

i was inspired to dig out some old images created using similar tools from last year

he was kind enough to message me back late last night

despite being interview on the bbc at 6am this morning

[grunisment]

Boris Eldagsen "Pseudomnesia: The Electrician"

[dospassos]

Girls just wanna have fun

[the-paradigm-web]

In case you missed this, an AI generated image 'won' the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards in the 'Creative' category. And then the artist, Boris Eldagsen refused the prize, admitting that he had done it as a 'test' of the system's readiness for AI. He wasn't out to defraud, merely highlight the issues.

Of course, all kinds of egg on faces, and lots of rather holier than though stuff about 'you could tell it was fake', 'judges need to do better' and 'AI (aka computers/robots) have no place in photography'.

Maybe if that latter point is true then we should all stop using digital cameras, software billed as ‘AI’ and MacBooks 🙂

Here is the image, and here is Boris’s statement.

https://www.eldagsen.com/sony-world-photography-awards-2023/