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Oh I just looked at the file name and noticed that this footnote "Image: AI generated for illustrative purposes". Illustrative of what? You telling me the Cockburn Association doesn't have a photo of the real Edinburgh skyline or Dugald Stewart Monument or a Georgian door it can use?

Right you are. Extremely disappointing. This is a labour issue, a social issue, an environmental issue. Lots of folks out there who would do a stellar job illustrating the brief.

If we were to give them a ( very, very generous ) benefit of the doubt. It could be slop, sloppily taken from an image search and used in ignorance. Rather than slop they've generated themselves. ( I find this explanation more depressing - since it's proof of ai slop polluting general searches )

I reckon it would have taken less time for them to walk up Calton Hill and take a photo for the poster than waiting for AI to make it. I won't be surprised when they say a well meaning volunteer/student/intern did it

To me the Cockburn who love the status quo, especially in wankpanzer form, using AI is right up their street. Cockburn, can we have decent bins? Nah, but have 67 rusting Range Rovers instead.