Last year the mainstream tech world gave a lot of coverage to ‘Miss AI 2024‘, which was billed as the first AI beauty contest, and run by an organization called the World AI Creater Awards (WAICA), as well as being backed by Fanvue – a more SFW version of OnlyFans. The announcement of the contest drew predictable criticism from feminist journalists, with Arwa Mahdawi of the Guardian claiming that it “feels like a monumental step backwards”, and that the organizers had “take every toxic gendered beauty norm and bundle them up into (a) completely unrealistic package”. Possibly to appease the Guardian journalist herself, the organizers decided to give the $20K winner’s cheque to a ‘Muslim’ AI persona named Kenza Layli from Morocco, or rather to the team behind her.
Apparently to pander to the feminist critics still futher, WAICA planned this year’s award to be less of a beauty contest, and renamed it to “AI Woman of the Year”, and would take place in July. Perhaps though they have decided that that still might not get the critics off of their backs, as it seems that with less than two months of the year left, there is no sign of the 2025 contest taking place.
Czech news site ‘Novinky.cz’ has tried contacting the organizers but have been met with stony silence, as they reported this week:
The second edition of Miss AI was reported by Novinky during the summer. At that time, the organizers promised to launch the competition in July and that it would run for six weeks. After all, this information is still on the official website of the competition now, in November. Long after the announced date.
Novinky.cz tried to contact the organizers of the competition, but was unsuccessful. No one responded to the questions sent, even after repeated requests.
The organizers of the World AI Creator Awards (WAICA) group evidently preferred other formats, as they managed to announce and evaluate a competition for the best AI music creators in the meantime.
