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
  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Researchers used A.I. and photo editing tools to create this digital reconstruction of the older victim’s escape.

    What has the world come to.

    • ProfThadBach@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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.

        • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          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.

    • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Half of the article was spent justifying their use of AI for this purpose.