German artist wins photography competition with computer-generated image
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The world is said to be heading for an artificial intelligence revolution. AI is expected to permeate all areas of 21st-century life, from education and healthcare to transportation and other labour markets.
Creative pursuits are not immune. Despite the futuristic technology, the shift towards AI is raising age-old questions such as: how do we define art?
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| TALKING POINT | | The winner of a Sony World Photography Award has rejected the prize after it emerged that he created his image using artificial intelligence (AI).
German artist Boris Eldagsen won the creative category of the prestigious competition with a black and white computer-generated portrait of two women, titled Pseudomnesia: The Electrician.
During the ceremony, Eldagsen appeared uninvited on stage, telling the audience that AI images are not photographs and therefore his image should not have won. He later berated the competition's judges for failing to distinguish between the two. "I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter," Eldagsen wrote on his website. "They are not."
A spokesperson for the award accused Eldagsen of "deliberate attempts at misleading us", said The Art Newspaper. |
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GETTING TO GRIPS WITH . . . | | A US-backed campaign between Panama and Colombia aims to stop migrants crossing the Darién Gap from South into Central America, as UN groups warn that the number of people attempting the journey could rise to a record 400,000 this year.
More than 100,000 people have already crossed the 66-mile stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama this year, the UN High Commission for Refugees and International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a joint statement on 14 April: six times more than in the same period in 2022, according to Panamanian government data.
By the current trajectory, the number will reach 400,000 people this year, compared with last year when 250,000 migrants and refugees "risked their lives crossing the Darién", the organisations said. |
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WHAT THE SCIENTISTS ARE SAYING… | | British cows could be given "methane blockers" to help the Government meet its climate change targets, reports The Guardian. There are 9.4 million cows and calves in the UK, and the methane emitted from their burps and manure is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. In its new net-zero strategy, the Government said that "high efficacy methane-suppressing products" were likely to enter the market in 2025, and that if they prove effective, it might become obligatory to add them to cattle feed. It is not anticipated that this would lead to significantly higher prices for consumers, and farmers' groups broadly welcomed the idea. However, green campaigners were sceptical; they argue that if this "fix" works at all, it would only address one of the environmental problems created by farming, and that the real solution is to reduce the consumption of beef and dairy products.
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| picture of the day | | Ukrainian soldiers fire a rocket launcher towards Russian positions near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.
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Good week for... | Type 2 diabetics, after a landmark trial found that the condition could be permanently reversed for some people by losing weight. Patients who went on a radical "soup and shake" 800-calorie-a-day diet for three months and then kept the weight off were free from symptoms five years later. | |
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Bad week for... | Netflix, which gained fewer new subscribers than Wall Street had forecast in the first quarter and delayed the broader launch of its password-sharing crackdown. | |
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"The Big Lie came at a big price," writes Oliver Darcy for CNN, after Fox News agreed to pay $787.5m to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. Rupert Murdoch has "suffered the consequences" of "Donald Trump's election lies". Along with the "hefty" payout, the case has "shredded to pieces the little that remained of the talk channel's credibility", says Darcy. And "this was only the first of Fox News' legal problems stemming from its mendacious conduct" in the wake of the 2020 vote. Another voting technology company, Smartmatic, is demanding damages of $2.7bn. Darcy points to a statement from Smartmatic's lead attorney, who said: "'Dominion's litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox's disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest.'" |
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DOWN TO BUSINESS | Wednesday afternoon markets | Global markets were generally down, as Britain became the only country in western Europe to record double-digit inflation in March. Consumer price inflation (CPI) dropped to an annual rate of 10.1% but remained above the 9.2% predicted by the Bank of England in February.
FTSE 100: 7,897.28, down 0.15%
Dax: 15,865.97, down 0.11%
Dow: 33,942.75, down 0.10%
Dollar: £1 = $1.2441, up 0.14%
Euro: £1 = €1.1353, up 0.27%
Brent crude: $83.34, down 1.69%
Gold: $1,986.50, down 1.04% | |
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