In April, German photographer Boris Eldagsen turned down the prestigious Sony world photography award in the creative open category because the image was created by artificial intelligence, a fact he didn’t reveal until after he won.
The reason for doing this, he says, was to see if competitions are prepared for AI images (clearly not). Now, Eldagsen will get to test his own discernment as a judge in the world’s first competition for AI generated “photographic” images.