The Fountain
The Fountain Essay Contest 2025
“Real or Fake?”: Reflections on How We Experience Life in the AI Age
...And the Winners Are:
1st Place
The Counterfeit Nightingale and the Real Song
By Shivangi
2nd Place
Between Sidq and Simulation: On Authenticity in the Age of AI
By Fatimah Azzahra Ishak
3rd Place
Real is Fake and Fake is Real / Art and Precarity in the Age of AI: A Critical Review
By Jagriti Sharma
Honorable Mention
The Things We Count in the Dark, or the Insomnia of Authenticity
By Olesia Tsvientukh
Honorable Mention
EuloGPT
By Jed Richardson
Congratulations also to all who made to top ten:
“Ghosts in the Machine: Talking to My Father in the AI Age”
By Leander P. E. Isler
“The Last Broadcast”
By Hale Hayta
“The Fragility of Real”
By Alberte Kastrup
“The Cathedral I Found Inside a Typing Box at Midnight”
By Raphael Joseph D. Osano
“A Love Letter to Human Error”
By Anwita D. Pillai
Congratulations to the winners!
You may also want to see 2025 Essay Contest Shortlist.
