Honestly this speaks more about their so-called competition for this to have taken first prize, because that "photograph" has some pretty big AI generation red flags in it, including the terribly smudged and distorted hands.
Absolutely. This was the case even when the artist won that art competition using midjourney. The overall mood of the picture was nice but the moment you looked at it a little more closely, everything that wasn’t the immediate subjects kind of warped into nonsense. Would love to hear from the judges of these competitions on how they select winning entries