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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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[โ€“] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Awesome article, the AI rendering sucked.

awe

[โ€“] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Half of the article was spent justifying their use of AI for this purpose.

[โ€“] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 2 points 10 hours ago

Proof of good writting Amiright

[โ€“] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought the same thing and the AI looked like Eric Idol. It is really sad seeing a magazine like the Smithsonian using AI slop.

[โ€“] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Listen we found a person holding TWO items and made a drawing, LOOK!:

Person holding one Item

-Smiles in ignorant-

[โ€“] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah I wouldn't mind if an actual artist has uses some slop generator to help them in some aspect of doing the depiction, but this was clearly just some prompt into a chatbot and no actual artist even touched it. Don't think they even used "photo editing tools" except perhaps for cropping.

Like you say, no lamp. One item. And such a nice clear day you can see all the way to the mountain in the described "darker than dark"-darkness โ€” for which he was supposed to have the lamp for.