I would be interested to see what it was competing against. I hadn't even heard of the award.

The AI image was competing in the Creative category of the Open category (as opposed to Professional). Official winners gallery is here:

https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/win...

Thanks!

The winner wouldn't have been my first pick against some of these. However, some have a "generated" quality to them, but that is probably the expectation of being fooled again, or heavy post.

Seeing it's the winner just raises so many more questions about who is judging this contest.

"Art".