A painting created by the Midjourney neural network won first place in an art competition.

Jason Allen generated a painting using the Midjourney neural network, which won first place in the State Fine Art Competition in Colorado. It is called "Spatial Opera Theatre". The picture gives the impression of man-made. Opinions were divided. Some people blame Allen for hastening the death of creative professions, others don't see this as a problem, since it still takes a very long time to create a high-quality image using Midjourney. The author of the work claims that he nevertheless played an important role in the creation of the picture.