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Pokémon disqualifies contest finalists following AI art row
The Pokémon Company has booted a bunch of fans from a Pokémon card art contest, after claims several entrants used AI t…
A statement today from The Pokémon Company claimed that "select entrants" among the competition's top 300 quarter-finalists had been found to have "violated the official contest rules", leading to their disqualification. 300 pieces of artwork from finalists were posted to the Pokémon website two weeks ago, though various entrants (some with strikingly similar artist names) were quickly highlighted as likely being AI-generated. There's no explanation by Pokémon today of why it failed to detect likely AI involvement before now, or why numerous similar author names were not flagged as suspicious.
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