This US political site has started using AI to illustrate its articles
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#63VG9)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Bulwark, a US political news and analysis site, has quietly started using AI to help illustrate its articles. It's not the first time we've seen a publication use machine learning art generators in this way, but it is, to this reporter's knowledge, the first time said publication has not made a whole song and dance about it - which is significant news.
In the past, magazines like The Economist have turned their AI-generated covers into cover stories, or writers have accidentally become stories through their use of AI illustrations. But, as far as we can see, The Bulwark hasn't even publicized this change. Instead, it's just started doing it - a sign of a maturing technology. The news was spotted by Wagner James Au on his blog and...