The London Eye has aimed to use no generative AI in the art throughout this newspaper, and succeeded.
For the most part, The London Eye has used Wiki Commons as a source for photography. In a few cases, we used paintings. Many of the images are links to their sources, you can click on them and see the original. In some, The London Eye applied a black and white filter.
Some of the images weI applied a transformative filter to. It altered the original to look like a Newspaper sketch. Some of these are clickable, and if you click you’ll see why The London Eye altered them.
Some of them Mr. Robert F. Hood drew.
Some might say all AI is bad. Yeah, I can see that argument, and I agree.
Some might think The London Eye took away business from an artist. No, no one would ever have been commissioned for these three images.
Some people might assume that The London Eye’s refusal to use AI here is not a refusal and everything on this site is all AI. First, that’s nonsense, but getting past that, it is also incredibly insulting.
There is no AI as good at writing as The London Eye staff are. It is bland and mediocre and we’re incredibly good at telling stories. Our prose is sharp as hell. Second, writing is our happy place, our safe space, it relaxes and de-stresses us, and we really, really, really enjoy it. We hate when people who use AI to generate stories call themselves writers because we honestly believe no one who was actually a writer would outsource the best bit of writing… the actual writing.
Lastly, yes, this note does imply that all front pages were created before the story was launched, all 66 of them. Do you really think we could be doing daily chapters and weekly front pages and everything else as we go along? Well, yes, of course we could, The London Eye is awesome; we simply didn’t want to have to pay Canva for more than a month.