Artist Not Accepting Prize After Revealing Using AI to Create Award-Winning Photograph

After admitting to using AI to generate a photo, a photographer is refusing an award from the Sony World Photography Awards. The German-born artist, Boris Eldagsen revealed, on his website, that he was not accepting the prize for the creative category. In the photo, two women from different generations are depicted in black and white.

But why did the photographer who studied at the Art Academy of Mainz and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague do this? …

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