The Pokémon Company has finally responded after the community called out the TCG Illustration Contest for handing multiple quarter-finalist spots to suspected AI-generated submissions.
On June 14, The Pokémon Company announced and showcased the top 300 quarter-finalists in this year’s TCG Illustration Contest. Fans were quick to point out six suspicious “AI-adjacent” submissions, which if proven true, would have violated two of the contest’s rules. In addition to failing to ensure the art was “created by them alone,” it appears the entrant may have also submitted six illustrations under different names (the limit was three).
