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Boris Eldagsen

Pseudomnesia: The Electrician

Fake Memories

work in progress, 2022 – ongoing

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Boris Eldagsen & AI

Boris Eldagsen has accused the Sony World Photograph Awards of failing to distinguish between a photograph and his DALL-E 2-created image:

THE ELECTRICIAN, from the series PSEUDOMNESIA, courtesy of atist’s gallery  Photo Edition Berlin. More information about the work linked below.

Fake Memories work in progress, 2022 – ongoing

The image was imagined by language (?) and re-edited more between 20 to 40 times through AI image generators, combining “inpainting”, “outpainting” and “prompt whispering” techniques.

Sony World Photography Awards 2023

Dear SWPA / CREO,

that you now want to give the impression that you wanted a dialogue but i don’t is nonsense. Only after I suggested for the third time that a public discussion is necessary did you offer me a Q&A on your blog to be published before the award ceremony – which I happily said yes to.

I waited 22 days in vain for these questions.

Also, pretending that they you knew the picture was AI is wrong. I told one of your assistants in lenght, but then after the press release your PR executive contacted me, being suprised about all the inquiries regarding my image and asking for more info.

I think you have a communication problem in your team. And also a communication problem with the photo community.

Many of my questions in email communication over the last months have never been answered by SWPA.

Press enquiries about whether my image is AI have not been answered, instead they have been dismissed with a generic quote.

Enquiries from concerned photographers have never been answered. Enquiries from the non-English press about my rejection of the award were not answered.

It was only when the international photo community took up the issue on social media and discussed it so intensively that the Times and BBC inquired, that CREO stopped being silent...

[ "Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum." ]

https://www.eldagsen.com/pseudomnesia/

https://www.eldagsen.com/sony-world-photography-awards-2023/

https://www.photoeditionberlin.com/

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© Boris Eldagsen

http://www.eldagsen.com

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© Boris Eldagsen

http://www.eldagsen.com

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Purgatory Rave Part 1

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“Pseudomnesia,” by Boris Eldagsen

Image from: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-generated-image-world-photography-organization-contest-artist-declines-award-1234664549/

Boris submitted this to a photography contest and won, proceeding this he came out and forfeited his prize as he was proving a point that people cannot tell the difference between AI "art" and human made art. I personally felt like this piece was definitley AI made, it lacks a realistic tangible quality that I see in a lot of other photography. I think this source is a great example as to why artifical intelligence is harmful to the art world. What would have happened if he had not said it was AI made? There definitley have been people that have produced something using AI and not said anything. It feels very morally wrong.