The public interest group, Bring Back the Kern, is launching a competition for residents to use artificial intelligence to generate images of a flowing Kern River through Bakersfield, where it is mostly dry, according to a press release from the group. The contest has been dubbed “A.I.pril Fools for the Kern River” and runs Wednesday, April 1 through April 15. The idea is to draw attention to the fact that the river runs dry through Bakersfield in most years as agricultural diversions take most of the water. … Bring Back the Kern, along with Water Audit California, is suing the City of Bakersfield over how it operates the river.