Anthropology

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I've seen some very upset messages posted on Twitter by real artists who have done science illustrations for years and are now very unhappy at seeing AI illustrations that get so much wrong being substituted instead. And I'm not talking about the even more ludicrous images showing up in "science" articles generated entirely or almost entirely by AI, like the one at https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218687511 . Some magazines, not just journals, are trying to save a few bucks with bad AI art.

When OpenAI introduced its AI video tool, Sora, earlier this year, there were posts raving about one short "photorealistic" video of ants underground, and how wonderful Sora would be for educational science videos.

The ants had 4 legs.