Ok, but still why would you do that? Why not hire an artist or get lcoal school kids to make something if you want to display a mural. There is no shortage of artists willing to do it, and anything they made would looks much better than this for a similar cost
Oh, I totally agree. I just wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t a community organized space. I thought about adding to the comment, but it got a bit wordy so I posted it as is.
For what it’s worth, an independent landlord would have a much more difficult time setting up a legitimate kids mural thing than the local municipality would for a park or train station or something. I’m not saying that’s an excuse to use AI, just that it’s not done as often as community art events are so I can’t imagine it would have occurred to them or seemed worth their effort. Presumably, it’s something they do for fun to add to the community atmosphere. I feel like they probably got scammed somewhat. I imagine they would not have put it up had they known about the quality of the image. Feels very boomer coded to me, but maybe I’m projecting based on some older people in my life. I could totally see one of them paying for something they think is going to be nice for the local festivities and then some random subcontractor shows up with this which they never even looked at or approved. They might have gone in knowing it was AI, but I can’t imagine not at least looking at it before approving it, so I feel like they just went with the cheapest option and didn’t think much more about it. Not that it’s an excuse or anything. I just wanted to make sure people knew the article suggests that this is not funded by the government.
Seems like the title is misleading. Apparently it’s put up privately by a landlord and not actually a community owned/operated thing.
Ok, but still why would you do that? Why not hire an artist or get lcoal school kids to make something if you want to display a mural. There is no shortage of artists willing to do it, and anything they made would looks much better than this for a similar cost
Oh, I totally agree. I just wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t a community organized space. I thought about adding to the comment, but it got a bit wordy so I posted it as is.
For what it’s worth, an independent landlord would have a much more difficult time setting up a legitimate kids mural thing than the local municipality would for a park or train station or something. I’m not saying that’s an excuse to use AI, just that it’s not done as often as community art events are so I can’t imagine it would have occurred to them or seemed worth their effort. Presumably, it’s something they do for fun to add to the community atmosphere. I feel like they probably got scammed somewhat. I imagine they would not have put it up had they known about the quality of the image. Feels very boomer coded to me, but maybe I’m projecting based on some older people in my life. I could totally see one of them paying for something they think is going to be nice for the local festivities and then some random subcontractor shows up with this which they never even looked at or approved. They might have gone in knowing it was AI, but I can’t imagine not at least looking at it before approving it, so I feel like they just went with the cheapest option and didn’t think much more about it. Not that it’s an excuse or anything. I just wanted to make sure people knew the article suggests that this is not funded by the government.
Like I eluded to twice, participating in a community mural project would be a creative kid’s dream opportunity.