Recent excavations revealed two skeletons just outside the ancient city's walls. Researchers also created an A.I.-generated reconstruction of one of the victim's harrowing final moments
Yeah I wouldn’t mind if an actual artist has uses some slop generator to help them in some aspect of doing the depiction, but this was clearly just some prompt into a chatbot and no actual artist even touched it. Don’t think they even used “photo editing tools” except perhaps for cropping.
Like you say, no lamp. One item. And such a nice clear day you can see all the way to the mountain in the described “darker than dark”-darkness — for which he was supposed to have the lamp for.
Awesome article, the AI rendering sucked.
awe
I thought the same thing and the AI looked like Eric Idol. It is really sad seeing a magazine like the Smithsonian using AI slop.
Listen we found a person holding TWO items and made a drawing, LOOK!:
Person holding one Item
-Smiles in ignorant-
Yeah I wouldn’t mind if an actual artist has uses some slop generator to help them in some aspect of doing the depiction, but this was clearly just some prompt into a chatbot and no actual artist even touched it. Don’t think they even used “photo editing tools” except perhaps for cropping.
Like you say, no lamp. One item. And such a nice clear day you can see all the way to the mountain in the described “darker than dark”-darkness — for which he was supposed to have the lamp for.
Half of the article was spent justifying their use of AI for this purpose.
Proof of good writting Amiright