There is only one thing worse than being imitated
Allegory of the Cave - Legion
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Edouard Joseph d’Alton’s Illustrations of Animal Skeletons (1821–1838)
Meticulous illustrations from an atlas of animal bones, including those of the tiny squirrel and the tall giraffe, the domesticated camel and the extinct giant ground sloth.
The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence
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What Was Alan Turing’s Imitation Game?
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 hired a real human artist to make its AI slop
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Analyzing Divine Machinery as an "”Art Movement"”
Animation Obsessive | Substack
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Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X
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Alt text: Black-and-white illustrations of a bat, a peacock, an elephant, and some kind of a monkey with their skeletons on top of faint silhouettes of their bodies. The bat and peacock also have studies of their skulls on the page
The Public Domain Review
From Comparative Osteology (1821–38) with illustrations by the Italian-born German naturalist Edouard Joseph d’Alton, an artist and art history professor whose students included a young Karl Marx. More of his wonderful images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/comparative-osteol…
