It is actually judged by a human at the end FYI.

"The top 5 submissions will be finalists, judged by hand."

Kind of like submitting resumes these days. AI winnows them down and the remaining few get passed to humans.

	▲	sph 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And who knows what ‘gems’ might have been skipped by the machine.

it still loses its luster, for me, knowing that the top 5 are ai-selected