Comment by thrance
13 hours ago
Why start the article with an AI-generated skyline of Paris? You couldn't find a real picture? Fucking hell.
13 hours ago
Why start the article with an AI-generated skyline of Paris? You couldn't find a real picture? Fucking hell.
The image appears to be "Paris skyline panorama with Eiffel Tower" taken by Jan Becke.
https://janbecke.com/portfolio-item/paris/
Take from that what you will.
Most of these photos seem heavily edited with only a few showing untouched skies. Thanks for sharing!
It should at least have been a woodcut of the AI skyline, just like those in those blue books. We had more or less a full set of those, printed in the late 1800s/early 1900s which I voraciously read as a child. Reading 'The Children of Captain Grant' and seeing those images of Tierra del Fuego or the jungle or any of the other scenes really brought the 'pathos' of the stories alive, as if I were a Victorian setting out to see the wonders of the world. They still do for me, probably 'cause of my early experience with those books.
Here's a site - ignore the warnings about the certificate - showing some of these images: https://jv.gilead.org.il/evans/illustr/