AI Art controversy: Why AI-generated artwork that won 1st prize is making artists furious?

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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 Fair. He won $300 cash prize for it. It is an artificial-intelligence-generated art piece and won the top spot at a competition in the United States. So why is the internet divided over it?