The jury of the 1839 Color Photography Awards recently summed up the results and selected the winners. One of the categories was "AI", in which artists published works made with the help of neural networks. However, photographer Miles Astray decided to cheat the system and submitted an entry with a real photo!

The prank went so far that his photo of a flamingo won 3rd place in the AI category. When the "cheating" came to light, the photographer was disqualified from the contest. 

As Miles himself stated: 
"Nature can still beat the machine, and the work of "living" authors has value."

By the way, the jury agreed with him, but decided to remove the flamingos out of respect for other authors.