According to Wilson, the Ockham awards committee alerted publishers to an amendment to the eligibility conditions in August, outlawing AI covers. He thought the books he entered for the Acorn Jann Medlicott fiction prize were on safe ground but was belatedly told by the designer that the covers were heavily reliant on AI.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't see the original article link but I think it's this one: https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/17/ockhams-dump-books-from-awards-over-ai-covers/

The cat is supposed to have human teeth, and the books were disqualified because the rules say you can't use AI for the book and the cover is part of the book.

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[–] _ed@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Aah that’s correct - the image replaced the original link - did not think that through.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah so there's a little quirk. You can set a thumbnail image when posting a link to an article, but if you set an image in the image field then that gets posted as the main link. A thumbnail image has to be a URL in a dedicated Thumbnail URL field. Catches people out reasonably often.

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