Techxplore.com has some interesting insights concerning flaws in the AI-led architectural image generation of historic Islamic architecture after a report about its inaccuracies surfaced in the journal Buildings this March.
"[The] inability to obtain precise visual representations of specific landmarks hinders the meaningful utilization of technology. The underlying reason for this limitation lies partially in the generic training dataset of generative artificial intelligence programs and services like Midjourney, which lacks adequate recognition of regional and cultural variations," researchers from the UAE’s University of Sharjah explain.
The matter touches on the limits of AI’s integration into the design process. The full paper, which focuses on the issues latent in a Midjourney experiment, is accessible here.
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Who said its accurate ?
I'm curious how Midjourney works. Do you just type a sentence and voilà?
We tend to think computers know what they are doing, when in fact they know nothing at all. The process leads to passivity and blindness in human creators, who might not catch mistakes. If you want to do this project, make a drawing or a model yourself and see what you learn and discover.
We're dumbing down. Cf. air guitar, etc.
Does any mosque have three minarets? Would AI know that?
As far as I know, most of the greyboxes don't "know" what they are doing in the sense that they only recognize patterns in language and imagery. The religious implications of the design, the principles behind the geometries, local idiosyncracies and all are all derived from studying images and their metadata alone.
Information technology has the obvious capacity to concentrate political power, to create new forms of social obfuscation and domination. The less prepared we feel to question the uses to which it is put, the more certain we are to suffer those liabilities.
Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information 1986, 1994
(This belongs elsewhere, but I wanted to get it in.)
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