#ai-generated-imagery

#ai-generated-imagery

The fused bundle of weathered steel industrial pipes is eye-catchingly at odds with the grand fountains, statues and Victorian pomp of the massive bronze lions. But this sculpture is completely site-specific: press a play button and look into one of the eyepieces embedded into three of the five pipes and you see images of the surrounding city from the viewpoint of naval commander Horatio Nelson's statue 45m up in the sky.

I love the smell of deportations in the morning Trump posted. Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR, in reference to Trump's rebranding of the Department of Defense. Behind an AI-generated image of Trump as the main character in the movie is a depiction of Chicago burning with helicopters hovering over the city.

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue, and you'll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn't real. She was generated entirely by AI. For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn't airbrushing a real person; it's a "person" created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful woman.