> The image boxed in red above is a falsified image taken from online, and has had mirroring performed in the hopes that no one would notice.

This probably won't happen in the future... because future competitors will learn from this mistake and know to run their image generation through AI so that their images are "novel"...

> Don't mentors have to sign off along the way? That part I don't get...

Can someone explain this? Is it plausible the mentors genuinely had no idea?