19 Jun 2024

Winner of AI art competition disqualified after revealing his photo was real

From Nights, 10:45 pm on 19 June 2024

Miles Astray is a writer and photographer who entered his photo of a pink flamingo, which appears to have lost its head and neck, into the AI category of the 1839 Awards, a prestigious international photo competition.

He won, but was shortly thereafter disqualified; it turned out his image was all human, and had no involvement from artificial intelligence at all.

Miles chats to Emile Donovan.

A photo of a flamingo standing on a white beach. Its head is tucked behind itself in such a way that it looks headless.

Photo: Miles Astray