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Pink Floyd slated after AI-created video wins Dark Side Of The Moon animation competition: “A spit in the face of actual artists” | “Groups like Pink Floyd legitimizing people who steal art from others should be ashamed and shamed”

Hundreds entered The Dark Side Of The Moon’s 50th anniversary animation competition. Out of the 10 winners, one was made entirely with AI.

“A spit in the face of actual artists who poured their heart and soul into each frame of work they made and submitted for this competition,” one fan commented on the YouTube page for the video. In a ‘behind the scenes’ video also published on Pink Floyd’s YouTube channel, the 3D artist claims he used the Stable Diffusion LLM that he trained using his own locally-hosted models, rather than scraping the internet, but for many fans it seems that’s not really the point. Critics of the judging panel – which included Gerald Scarfe, who created the iconic hand-drawn The Wall animations – will be glad to know the AI creation did not receive a cash prize.

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