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A competitor in an AI image contes was disqualified when they realized that he had submitted a real photograph.

As Anna Russel would say, "I'm not making this up, you know."

The photographer, Miles Astray, if that is indeed his real name, said that he was trying to make a statement about generative AI faux "Art."

A photographer has been disqualified from a picture competition after his real photograph won in the AI image category.

Miles Astray entered a real, albeit surreal photo of a flamingo into the AI category of the 1839 Color Photography Awards which the judges not only placed third but it also won the People’s Vote Award.

“I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives,” Astray tells PetaPixel over email.

“After seeing recent instances of AI-generated imagery beating actual photos in competitions, I started thinking about turning the story and its implications around by submitting a real photo into an AI competition.” 

Very well played, young man.