The Pokémon Company has booted a bunch of fans from a Pokémon card art contest, after claims several entrants used AI to aid their submissions.
A statement today from The Pokémon Company claimed that “select entrants” among the competition’s top 300 quarter-finalists had been found to have “violated the official contest rules”, leading to their disqualification.
There’s no explanation by Pokémon today of why it failed to detect likely AI involvement before now, or why numerous similar author names were not flagged as suspicious.
Still, at least this time Pokémon players weren’t disqualified for flinging poo.