I don’t fear machines destroying our humanity. What I fear is machines replacing human control and management and prioritizing cost-effectiveness and profit over performance, safety and efficiency. Technology has always altered the way we do things, but now it threatens the how and why.

Scientists used to need to know how to sketch and draw, cameras do that now. Scientists needed to be able to write notes longhand, legibly, in the dark, now they can record their voice. But we should never surrender our responsibility to design our research programs and develop protocols. And its not just science we need to worry about. The way we run our economy and our businesses, or our government and our military, should never be handed over to accountants, especially automated ones.

This is done by AI. A totally different process. It renders based on what you write in your prompt. There is no physical raytracing, it is drawing upon countless billions of other images to come up with what it ‘thinks’ you want.

There is already talk of combining AI with Blender (the software i use) to automate some of the tasks … we are looking at a disturbing revolution… what happens to artistry? Creativity?

The error is noticeable in both images. The cast shadow and sun are off by about 20 degrees in the burning earth image and they are off by ninety degrees in the lunar banquet scene. The solar location can be inferred by the way the earth is illuminated in the latter, and by direct inspection in the former.

The sun is shown near Orion’s Belt in the burning earth image, which is the location of the celestial equator. The sun DOES cross the equator, at the equinoxes (traditionally Aries and Libra, Pisces and Virgo today due to precession), but NOT in Orion.

Some details, like candles burning in vacuum or flames outside earth’s atmosphere, can be forgiven as humorous exaggeration or artistic metaphor. But getting the astronomy wrong is unforgivable.

I know I’m nit-picking here, but isn’t that what computers are supposed to be good at?