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The Guardian — AI · September 17, 2026 · On the brief until October 1, 2026

Artists boycotted this portrait prize over AI entries. Now they’re back to take them on

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After a two-year boycott over the Brisbane Portrait Prize permitting AI-generated entries, several artists—including First Nations painters—have returned to compete directly against machine-generated works using art grounded in ancestral integrity. The contest highlights an ongoing institutional debate between viewing generative software as an assistive creative tool and resisting it as a threat to cultural knowledge and authentic human representation.

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Faculty can use this debate to explore the tension between framing AI as an iterative design tool versus viewing it as a practice that risks exploiting cultural intellectual property and eroding generational craft.

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