So, some Berlin-based basedboy named Boris Eldagsen – probably sports a soy beard and pronouns in his bio – submitted an AI-generated image to the Sony World Photography Awards. He called it “Pseudomnesia: The Electrician,” which sounds like something a gender studies major would come up with after hitting the vape too hard. Turns out, it won. And then he pulled the rug out from under the woke art establishment, revealing it was all a prank to expose their utter lack of discernment.

Now the pearl-clutching begins. The World Photography Organisation, probably staffed entirely by diversity hires and virtue signalers, claims they were “misled.” Yeah, sure you were. More like you’re too busy patting yourselves on the back for being “inclusive” to actually, you know, judge art.

Eldagsen, bless his heart, admitted he was being a “cheeky monkey.” The absolute Chad move of the year. He just wanted to see if these so-called gatekeepers could tell the difference between a real photograph and something churned out by Skynet’s art division. Spoiler alert: they couldn’t.

He told CNN that photographers are “threatened and afraid that they are going to lose their jobs which will happen.” Welcome to the future, snowflakes. Automation is coming for everything, even your precious art world. Maybe learn a trade, eh?

He says he wasn’t trying to win. He was just “making a test to see if they were aware – like a hacker who hacks a system not to exploit it, but to see if there are weaknesses.” In other words, he’s the Edward Snowden of the art world, exposing the deep state’s incompetence one AI-generated image at a time.

The WPO, scrambling to save face, now says they’ve “suspended” activities with Eldagsen. Translation: they’re throwing a tantrum because someone dared to expose their idiocy. Meanwhile, the rest of us are laughing our asses off.

This whole thing is a perfect microcosm of the modern art world: pretentious, clueless, and easily fooled. They’re so busy virtue signaling and pushing their woke agenda that they can’t even tell the difference between real art and AI-generated garbage. It's like that time some dude put a banana taped to a wall and called it art, and people unironically praised it. Peak clown world.

The real takeaway here isn’t about AI art, it’s about the utter collapse of standards in every institution controlled by the left. Whether it’s art, education, or journalism, they’re all being hollowed out by woke ideology and incompetence. At least we got some lulz out of it.

It is a demonstration of a growing trend. Institutions are more interested in checking boxes than maintaining standards. That trend applies to more than just art, and it is only going to worsen as the march of technology presses forward. Soon AI may be generating our entire digital infoscape. Buckle up, buttercups.

The artist has since been praised by some for his work, and condemned by others who said that it was, in effect, a stolen victory. The issue remains contentious, but, at the very least, it has people talking. And, as the artist himself admits, that was the point of the exercise all along.

So next time you’re at an art gallery, remember this story. Remember that the “art” you’re looking at might just be a random image generated by an algorithm. And remember that the people who run these institutions are probably just as clueless as you are. Good times.