{"id":4657,"date":"2024-12-04T20:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T01:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:37:25","slug":"frosted-fir-tree-wentworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2024\/12\/04\/frosted-fir-tree-wentworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Frosted Fir Tree, Wentworth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I got a few new puzzles from Wentworth, and in need of a relatively short solve, I pulled out the 240-piece “Frosted Fir Tree”, with artwork credited to “Alexandru Davidenco”. When I went to see more about this artist, I figured out this is actually AI-generated art. See the licensing shop<\/a>, where this user has uploaded many different pieces, often many that are variations on one particular version, and in a wide variety of styles. )-8 Writing to Wentworth, because I like work by … people with artistic intelligence. I’m not prejudiced — when MurderBot starts doing art, I’m on board. But right now, “generative AI” is not yet actually intelligent. There’s no animating intelligence; just an assemblage of (visual or tetxual) content that clusters around textual prompts. Sigh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did the puzzle anyway, and enjoyed the etched whimsies, because, pagan trees, and also the two-part ornaments. Flipping it was a fail, because of the loose connections, but what the heck, you can get the sense of the back anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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