Ngl, this is bizarrely interesting from an art historical perspective as a kind of reverse Aby Warburg Mnemosyne atlas - as the LLM is a statistical tool it will reproduce somehow normative poses & formal compositions, which it ofc synthesized from whatever images were looted from the internet /1

We must accept that AI does (at least) produce work for art historians!

... the LLM doesn't have a concept of history, so in a way everything is 'contemporary', even if the source is historical. I guess that there are loads of ads and influencer stuff in the dataset, so buff Descartes is a plausible outcome even though it clashes with what we'd expect /2