Aaaaand 🥁 ...

it's time to vote for Inkscape's 1.4 About Screen Contest! 🗳

Presenting our gallery: 27 entries, 22 #Inkscape artists.

Thanks to all who entered!

Community vote: Apr. 15 (0:00 UTC) to Apr. 21, 2024 (11:59 UTC) https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-14

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All great, but my question is how Inkscape is positioned in the term that base for an image was AI generated in Midjourney?
I just have some concerns towards one or two of the images in this set. And author of it is using AI, plus author do not have anything remotely similar to his entry in his portfolio, or at last what I was able to find? I think the base image was AI generated then manually or auto-traced, cleaned up and changed. Is it ok?
I just don't like when people doing some shortcuts, especially in the open contest, where the rest did not...

@slizgi It is being investigated. Part of the discussion in the vectors team. 

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Personally I wouldn't discourage people using ai in general.

It is a set of tools that can be either open to the public like other foss projects or paid versions. 

Besides the general idea of ai models feeding on "artwork theft" -not always the case-, other concern would be the "openness" of the ai tool being used.

Using paid tools for a foss competition is definitely better avoided.

The means in which the ai tool is utilised is another question.

It can generate sketches and use those to better your concepts and composition in no time. 

Either those generated images can be pulled in in an automated fashion or you can add more value to them with your work.

We should educate people on using ai in an ethical way.

Probably the next contest wording will be even more specific than the current rules.

Can only predict that the current entries which raise the question if they were made with/by ai won't make it to the release. 

Public voting is just the first round. The final say will always be the developers.

One of the rules for the about screen contest is 

• This contest is for people, so your image must not be AI-generated or contain AI-generated elements.

although the rules did not clarify or extend a scope, does it not imply that AI should not be used in the competition at all? 

@rosa0123
Awesome, I was looking on the post on forum not on the competition website, by bad, all is now clear.
I am not participating in the contest (except voting), and my question is not because I want to use AI - I am rather on the side - that it is interesting somehow but very sketchy in terms of what the models were trained. So TLDR I am not in a big favor of AI in terms of making art. It is not important.
Now if this is the rules, how do you guys determine that someone was using AI or not, and just work on top of that, do you ask about some stages of work, like work in progress, or some initial sketches?
Why I am writing all this? I believe that most professional and nice looking entry in the 1.4 contest is made with AI, until proven somehow that is not. The author have not adequate stuff in the portfolio, and as far as I checked was posting some Midjourney stuff on the social media and is in favor of that.
And don't get me wrong, if the author made it without AI, then, amazing. It will be a really nice splash screen. But I doubt he did it without AI, there is too much AI things on his social media. So it will be really not cool for the rest of participants that did not use AI.

 

Congratulations to community-voted Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest Top 5:

“Creative Growth” & “Expand Your Creative Universe” by Chris Hildenbrand,

“Inkscape's Path-Artist's Blossom” by Inkonic,

“Draw your world” by Kess and

“Vibe On Creators” by NDIM DONALD

(alphabetical order).

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Due to some tabulation issues on our end, we are sorry that we did not celebrate all of the #Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest artists whose artworks should have been highlighted.

We will announce the Top 7 winners in the coming days.

Thank you for your support.

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We are happy to share the Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest Top 7 artists!

“Creative Growth” & “Expand Your Creative Universe” by Chris Hildenbrand,

“Unstoppable Creativity” by Denis Kuznetsky,

“Inkscape’s Path-Artist Blossom” by Inkonic,

“Draw your world” by Kess,

“Vibe On Creators” by NDIM DONALD,

“Flourishing Inkscape” by Sreya Saju

Thanks to everyone who participated, and we apologize again for the previous mixup!

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