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This Man Fled Pompeii as Mount Vesuvius Erupted. Archaeologists Found Him 2,000 Years Later, Holding a Bowl to Protect His Head and a Lamp to Light His Way (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[โ€“] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 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 โ€” for which he was supposed to have the lamp for.

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