The first thing people saw when they searched Google for the artist Hieronymus Bosch was an AI-generated version of his Garden of Earthly Delights, one of the most famous paintings in art history.

Depending on what they are searching for, Google Search sometimes serves users a series of images above the list of links they usually see in results. As first spotted by a user on Twitter, when people searched for “Hieronymus Bosch” on Google, it included a couple of images from the real painting, but the first and largest image they saw was an AI-generated version of it.

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    This is “technology news and articles?”

    Seems like this place is increasingly just people yelling at AI-generated clouds.

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      2 months ago

      the world’s most-used search engine prioritising an AI-generated slop version of a very famous painting is very much “technology news and articles” imo

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      2 months ago

      Sort of. I feel like I report half the posts around here because they’re neither news nor articles.

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      2 months ago

      Im betting these now daily mindless “hey look AI did sumptin silly” articles only serve to drive more traffic to Gemini.