A German artist has turned down

A SCREENSHOT OF BORIS ELDAGSEN'S "THE ELECTRICIAN" A German artist has  turned down  a prestigious photography award, acknowledging that the winning image was created using OpenAI's DALL-E 2 AI system.   Boris Eldagsen's " The Electrician " won the creative category in the open competition at the World Photography Organization's Sony World Photography Awards. Eldagsen, a photo-media artist since 2000, said he submitted the work as a "cheeky monkey" to test whether such competitions are ready for AI-generated images. "They are not," he concluded in a  post on his website .  After decades of photography, Eldagsen said his focus has switched to "exploring the creative possibilities of AI generators." He said "The Electrician" was the result of a mixture of "prompt engineering, inpainting, and outpainting" that made use of his photography knowledge. However, Eldagsen concluded that "AI is not photography" and he will therefore "not accept the award." While Eldagsen considers himself a "co-creator" alongside AI, the World Photography Organization  says  Eldagsen was deliberately misleading and the entity can no longer "engage in a meaningful and constructive dialogue" with the artist.