https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dy3vxy/sony-world-photography-awards-ai-generated

The winner of a major photography prize has rejected the award after revealing that the winning image was generated by AI. 

In March this year, the World Photography Organisation announced the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023. Among many stunning images that took home various prizes was “PSEUDOMNESIA: The Electricia” by German artist Boris Eldagsen, which won in the Creative category. A Sony press release described the image as “a haunting black-and-white portrait of two women from different generations, reminiscent of the visual language of 1940s family portraits.”