aceArtists boycotted this portrait prize over AI entries. Now they’re back to take them on
Poised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while she looks dreamily upward, as if to say “Who, me?” The woman in the red dress is Australian comedian Alice Fraser, as photographed on stage. The other women – generic superheroes and 1950s housewives – were created using the generative AI software Krea. “It is the human being chosen over the AI element,” artist Jackie Ryan says. “But is being chosen a good thing?” Ryan’s work The Cat…
Artist Jackie Ryan used generative AI software to produce elements of a portrait that became a finalist in the Brisbane portrait prize after the prize opened to declared AI works.
Artists argued that allowing AI-generated entries devalues art as lacking cultural content and risks encouraging harvesting of First Nations cultural IP.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-09-17
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