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I regret to inform you that the Doors Open Day poster on the @thecockburn.bsky.social website is AI slop. If only this city had any awesome photographers and/or designers that our heritage champions could have turned to instead then we might have avoided this machine-generated embarrassment 🤦

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵

@threadinburgh.scot

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?

7/9/26, 9:56 pm1 repost33 likes

JosephScript

@josephscript.com

8 Sept

It's hilarious in that they could literally have walked over and taken a photo

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵

@threadinburgh.scot

8 Sept

If they couldn't be bothered doing that they could even have copy and pasted the same basic image, but a proper photograph, off another recent leaflet:

JosephScript

@josephscript.com

8 Sept

Anything to avoid royalties I guess?