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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Daniel John

Orchestra's tone-deaf AI art provokes outrage

AI-generated orchestra ad featuring two people sitting at a concert with a lot of fingers.

We've seen plenty of examples of egregious AI use, often involving brands trying to use the tech surreptitiously. Some AI artworks are more obviously artificially generated than others – but it's unclear quite how Queensland Symphony Orchestra expected its latest AI Facebook ad not to get accused of hitting a bum note.

"Want to do something different this weekend? Come and see an orchestra play!" The caption reads above an image featuring a couple nuzzling in the audience of a classical concern (in which the orchestra is, it seems, also part of the audience.) But if the weirdly waxy sheen doesn't give away the AI's provenance, the hands certainly do.

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