Miles Astray recently won the People's Vote and a Jury Award in the AI category of a photography contest - before they were promptly taken away.
His picture 'Falmingone' shows a flamingo on a beach with the sea in the background.
However the work submitted to the 1839 Awards in the AI category was actually not AI-generated.
Mr Astray told Moncrieff why he decided to take this approach.
"I'd seen a few examples of the opposite happening [with] creatives entering AI imagery into real photo competitions," he said.
"Most notably last year somebody won an award at the Sony World Photo Awards... and it turned out to an AI-generated image.
"So I thought, 'Why not turn this story around and enter a real photograph into an AI competition?"
Miles Astray. Image: SuppliedMiles Astray said he wanted to show "that Mother Nature still outdoes the machine, that there's still merit in human content."
He said many competitions are now adding AI categories.
"Some organisers of these awards now try to add that as a separate category to give a platform to those artists as well to show their imagery," he said.
"Some of it is quite frankly really stunning.
"I think that's OK but I would really like to see it seperate from real photography, I think it is a very different thing".
'I was disqualified'
Mr Astray said he "came clean" to the jury before he went to the media.
"The co-founder and the director of the award led by saying that they actually really appreciate this; that they think it's an important and timely statement and that they hope that this can give hope to creatives who are worried about the implications of AI," he said.
"That really made my day - in the same breath they told me I was disqualified".
Miles Astray added that being disqualified was something he had expected to happen.
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