Bummer to see that AI-generated "art" there on that BoingBoing article. They're enticing you to go to a cool museum by... showing you random AI art of something that isn't that museum. Like, just show the museum, what the fuck.
Discover the Enchanted World of Automata at New Jersey's Unique Museum boingboing.net/2024/02/25/d...
Explore the Guinness Collection in Morristown, NJ, where history, art, and technology meet. Marvel at mechanical musical instruments and automata in an immersive journey into the past.
I've stopped reading Boing Boing because they use AI for their images constantly.
Feels especially surprising coming from BB, tbh.
Ya - boingboing lost me when the went the route of using AI generated bs images - another sad turn of enshitification ironically, given their original relationship with cory doctorow himself!
When the human-labor-free-tool you have is AI, everything looks like something that would be improved by being put into the uncanniest of artistic valleys
At a glance I thought it was for like a virtual museum of AI art, didnāt even consider that it was an irl place that might even be interesting
Also shows how far BoingBoing has fallen - I canāt imagine the site doing something like that if Xeni or Cory were still involvedā¦
I mean i can't imagine that a museum has got its own press and marketing photos that they'd be happy to share with someone writing an article about them in order to get more people into the museum.
They could have justā¦ I realize paying an artist requires spending money but they could have just paid an artist.
"Journalism" at its finest. :(