By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026While making this collage (and snipping little medieval dudes out of Agostino Ramelli’s 16th C "Theatre of Machines") I was amused by how many had 6 or 7 fingers. Weird hands predate AI - plenty of overworked engravers seem to have lost count. 4688
Paul Gunning @paulgunning.bsky.social · 06/08/2026As LLM drawing is largely an average of everything it’s been shown is thus suggesting that the machines are faithfully copying prior art? 100
abligh @abligh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Hands are really hard! Artists spend a lot of time hiding them to avoid having to depict them accurately. 281
Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I have been scanning Heck's iconographic encyclopedia plates from the 1850s, and was struck by the similarity between an A.I. error and an engraver working backwards in another language. 1196
