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It is actually judged by a human at the end FYI.

"The top 5 submissions will be finalists, judged by hand."

Kind of like submitting resumes these days. AI winnows them down and the remaining few get passed to humans.

And who knows what ‘gems’ might have been skipped by the machine.

it still loses its luster, for me, knowing that the top 5 are ai-selected