La Società di Helsinki per la lessicografia storica, insieme all’Università di Helsinki e all’Università di Stoccolma, pubblicizzano un seminario con un’orribile sciocchezza dell’intelligenza artificiale

https://i.redd.it/w2c4udinho1e1.png

di chalervo_p

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  1. chalervo_p on

    [https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/centre-for-intellectual-history/news/seminar-the-dictionary-craze-in-enlightenment-europe-1665-1789](https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/centre-for-intellectual-history/news/seminar-the-dictionary-craze-in-enlightenment-europe-1665-1789)

    The point of humanities education and research is to learn about culture, preserve culture and help culture flourish. What are they doing with representing humanities education with hideous, hollow synthetic replicas of actual authentic culture? They are defaming their own field.

  2. It’s just a talk, it’s not like they can afford to hire illustrators or graphic designers every time someone comes to give a presentation. This is probably some doctoral student with few resources and no artistic training trying to add a bit of visual energy to what would otherwise be a dull text-and-logo poster.

  3. FingerGungHo on

    I for sure am censed and whelmed about this!

    It’s just university people, what did you expect?

  4. piotor87 on

    Dude it’s a joke based on the name of the talk: “the dictionary CRAZE”.

    Considering there will be, at best, 30 people in the audience I strongly doubt they had the budget to hire an artist to do something similar

    Not to mention that the goal of that image was to catch attention and I guess it’s done a pretty good job!

    I *really* have a tough time understanding what the issue even would be.

  5. saschaleib on

    I’ve been in Stockholm, can confirm that’s authentically how academics there look like!

  6. Merileopardi on

    Atrocious. I am from the Meia department of Aalto where people actually do use AI occasionally for projects because it is relevant for us. No one would be caught dead with such a horrid AI rendition, it’s not just that it’s AI, it’s really bad AI. For everyone saying ‘Poor presenter had no budget’ let me hit you with something crazy…photographs! Historical paintings!

    They are collecting dust in your university archive and going unused in favor of THIS.

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