[HN Gopher] Stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recov...
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       Stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recovered from
       seafloor
        
       Author : gnabgib
       Score  : 64 points
       Date   : 2025-07-13 22:51 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (archaeologymag.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (archaeologymag.com)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | We changed the URL from
       | https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/01/lighthouse-alexandria-g...
       | to an article that it appears to have been cribbed from, although
       | it's not entirely clear.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | [stub for offtopicness]
       | 
       | [original URL was
       | https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/01/lighthouse-alexandria-g... -
       | see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598029]
        
         | lapetitejort wrote:
         | > Interpretation of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Credit:
         | Midjounrey / Open Domain / Free Use
         | 
         | In addition to not paying artists for interpretations, they
         | also apparently do not pay editors to proofread.
        
           | richwater wrote:
           | A human artist rendering would not have changed how anyone
           | consumes this article. In fact it may even be less realistic
           | given how artists are not experts in every field and more
           | often than not take wide liberties (see dinosaurs)
        
             | IncreasePosts wrote:
             | I think they're commenting on "Midjounrey"
        
             | nkrisc wrote:
             | If you care, you can hire an artist and a subject matter
             | expert to collaborate and produce accurate (to current
             | scientific knowledge) renderings.
             | 
             | Or even an artist who has prior experience creating
             | accurate renderings from archeological data.
             | 
             | If you care.
        
         | jaysonelliot wrote:
         | Using Midjourney to visualize a historical structure like this
         | is not just lazy, it's very misleading.
         | 
         | Especially when there are actual digital recreations, available
         | for free use under Creative Commons, based on historical
         | information and modern surveys:
         | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PHAROS2013-3000x2250...
        
           | IG_Semmelweiss wrote:
           | I dont understand your comment
           | 
           | Your comment implies that (some) article images are somehow
           | the result of LLMs. I don't think that is the case at all
           | based on the articles' source attributions.
        
       | dr_dshiv wrote:
       | It was the tallest building in the world? And it survived till
       | the 1300s?? Wild.
        
       | echelon_musk wrote:
       | Seems like there's a gulf between the artist's computer rendering
       | and the mosaic.
        
         | ekaryotic wrote:
         | i dare say archaeologists have multiple depictions of the
         | lighthouse, considering how famous it was.
        
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