Which instances do you think aren't misleading? Other than the explicitly electronic ones, it seems like nearly all of the awards are either from the Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award or have some caveat like only being suspected of using AI or only using it for part of the work.

Someone producing the 10,000th illustrated edition of Frankenstein or winning an award with a book with an AI-generated cover or winning an award with an anthology with one AI generated segment or one award jury having bad taste is not very strong evidence of quality to me.

The award was for the illustration, it wasn't incidental.