‘Hire a damn artist’: Los Angeles magazine gets swift backlash for AI cover that aimed to be subversive

AI-generated images are already all over the internet, and now magazines are getting in on the act, too. Los Angeles magazine recently released its special election issue featuring mayoral candidates Nithya Raman and Spencer Pratt posing for the cover. The choice seems obvious—local political candidates for an election issue—except the cover did not actually feature Raman and Pratt, but rather AI-generated versions of them. As a whole, the cover looks like an obvious AI-generated collag...