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Another problem might be the sheer speed that junk can now be churned out. One computer can create in seconds the sort of tripe that previously would take a film crew, a writer, a handful of actors, and a quarry somewhere to create.

Quote from: Justin Swanton on February 25, 2025, 08:09:48 AMThe real problem is that to know a thing truly you have to know it in depth and nobody has the time to thoroughly research every topic. That means we rely on summaries done by others for almost everything we think we know.

True.   Of course, if we go large on this, there are enough of us humans for us to have people who know all sorts of stuff in depth. The trick is to find the trustworthy sources for the information we need.

Quote from: Erpingham on February 25, 2025, 10:33:59 AMThe trick is to find the trustworthy sources for the information we need.

There lies the rub.

A still image rather than a video but illustrating some of the issues of AI illustration



I think the commissioner has asked for an image of the Battle of Agincourt in the 19th century Salon style. This would explain the rich colours, anyway. However, a few seconds looking and you start to see some weird stuff.

Most of the men seem to be armed with curved sticks, which are waved or poked at the enemy.  in the middle distance, some sticks seem to be in the air, so they must be throwable. In the left foreground, two men seem to passing a curved stick between them.  Based on the perspective it must be about 12ft long.

Try to sort out the anatomy of the bodies in the left foreground. I couldn't.

A man in the right foreground has his helmet on backwards

The strange mummy like figure on a horse in the left middle ground seems to have a stick in his left hand, another in his right and with his third hand he appears to hold the horses mane

It is unclear why the participants are fighting in a thick fog

And so it goes. I suspect the curved sticks are because the AI was told to include bows.  It could tell what their shape was but had no idea how they were used.

Incidentally, the image comes from the The Swedish Royal Academy of War Sciences, so maybe Agincourt is a bit of a marginal subject for them.