“It took far more than pressing a button,” says creator of controversial AI images shown at Belfast exhibition – and, honestly, I agree

A lifelike, robot woman wearing a yellow jumpsuit interacts with a real man.

Last week the media was in uproar about a major photography gallery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, displaying AI-generated images in an exhibition.

In fact, the chief executive of the Belfast Exposed gallery, the institution under fire, recently defended the decision in a BBC article, as did the creator of the images, Johnny Sheridan, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate from Ulster University.