This picture won a prize in an AI competition — but it's real

• Miles Astray won a prize in an AI contest with a photograph that was not generated by AI. 
• He later revealed it was a stunt to highlight the ethical issues of AI-generated images in contests.
• Astray was disqualified but said a cofounder of the award praised his actions. 

A photographer won a prize in a competition for AI-generated photographs — except the picture he submitted was real.

Miles Astray's image of a flamingo won third place in the AI-generated category of the 1839 Awards' Color Photography Contest last week.