A man won an art competition in Colorado using AI-generated art, prompting a debate over what art is

After posting on online about his win at a state fair's art contest using AI-generated art, a man is facing backlash about the victory. Artist Jason Allen used an artificial intelligence program called Midjourney to make the winning art piece called "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial," that won first place for digital art in the Colorado State Fair's fine arts competition. Midjourney generates graphics from words in a text box. In a Discord post that was shared on Twitter, Allen, under the username Sincarnate, wrote about making the image using Midjourney and winning first place in digital arts category at the state fair's fine arts competition. "I have been exploring a special prompt that I will be publishing at a later date, I have created 100s of images using it, and after many weeks of fine tuning and curating my gens, I chose my top 3 and had them printed on canvas after upscaling with Gigapixel A.I.," the post said.