Posted 4/9/2024, 3:31:00 PM
Pink Floyd's AI art contest winner causes backlash from independent animators
- Pink Floyd selected an AI-generated video as one of the 10 winners in their Dark Side of the Moon 50th anniversary animation contest
- The winning AI video was created by Argentinian-Australian artist Damián Gaume using Stable Diffusion and Blender
- Many independent animators are upset that AI art was chosen over their hand-crafted work by judges like Nick Mason and Terry Gilliam
- The AI video has an "alien sheen" and guitars with "too many pickups", showing the limitations of AI art
- Some view Pink Floyd's choice as failing to stand up for actual art in the face of inevitable AI proliferation