Meet Kenza Layli from Morocco - the winner of the world's first Miss AI beauty pageant

Earlier this year, the World AI Creator Awards introduced the world’s first-ever artificial intelligence beauty pageant for AI-generated models, Miss AI. 

We reported that the Fanvue Miss AI pageant, which aims to demonstrate “a shift in how we perceive beauty and creativity within the realms of artificial intelligence”, brings together AI creators from across the globe to showcase their digital creations vying for the Miss AI crown. 

Amidst the concerns that AI is threatening job security and artistic professions, it all felt like a dystopian stunt that we’re not the biggest fans of.

Still, the Fanvue World AI Creator Awards judges – a panel of two real humans and two AI-generated models – have unveiled the first winner of the inaugural Miss AI beauty pageant.

Each judge used their expertise to assess contestants across three core categories: realism, tech, and social clout. A points-based system was used to score each creator across the three categories with each entrant given an overall score. 

And the digital queen is... Kenza Layli from Morocco, who beat 1,500 other computer-generated women to claim the title.

Layli, a hijab-wearing “activist and influencer”, has more than 193,000 followers on Instagram. Her bio states that “her engaging content is closely tied to Moroccan society” and that her goal “is to contribute to the empowerment of women in Morocco and the Middle East, while also bringing much-needed regulation to the influencer market." 

Her creators use a mix of technologies to generate image, video and audio 100% from AI, and bagged $5,000 (€4,600) cash, an "imagine creator mentorship programme" worth $3,000 (€2,800) as well as PR support worth more than $5,000 for coming in first place.

Layli stated in her