Back in 2022 when AI image generators were novel and interesting, a piece of AI art gained some notoriety after it won a fine art competition at the Colorado State Fair. The judges hadn't realised that it was made using MidJourney – or rather, they hadn't realised what MidJourney was (it's in our pick of the best AI art generators).
Artists were incensed, and the incident became a bit of a poster story for the debate around the merits of AI art and how it should be treated. It also went on to become a test case for the question of whether AI art can be copyrighted. And that issue isn't done and dusted yet.
