> What sort of human element is desired here?

The human wallet

Yep. This is basically an ad for their "Artifacts" product. They are probably hoping to make more off of the spend of contestents than they pay in the prize to the winner.

The element of irony.

Who said it’s for humans?

I’m tempted to ask an agent to submit an entry for me.

Why do they need others to ask their agents to do it? Why can't they ask their own agents?

Tokens be too expensive. Outsource to subs of all the devs over the world. OpenAI inverstors gonna take the inference L on subsidized tokens.

Yeah, but at the same time compensation is meager enough that they won't get as much of a response. I am only kinda considering it and that is mostly, but the more I am reading through the details the more of a turn off the whole thing is.

You don't get infinite monkeys writing Hamlet with just a few monkeys

Once in a while you do. I see what you did though by specifying a particular play. Normally we settle for any Shakespeare :)

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