Okay, then I get what it was for as a protest. But as for the photographer being disqualified... yeah? Makes sense? Not that having an AI competition makes any sense to begin with, though.
"He should have been disqualified." Right, he was.
But if he just posted it on a "normal" contest do you think that he could say such this message?
No one would care and he would just be a random participant...
The contest wasn't whether real pictures were better than AI pictures. The point they're making is irrelevant.
This is like submitting a home made pie to a 'best restaurant pie' contest. Yeah, the home made pie might be better, but that's not the point of the competition.
We agree on the point that it's not the point of the competition and that's alright that he was disqualified, BUT it's a great move (like have done the AI into real art) to show that real arts could always be as good as AI ones!