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Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History

A Google Search for “Hieronymus Bosch” returned an AI-generated version of The Garden of Earthly Delights pulled from an AI slop blog.
Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History
Left: The real Garden of Earthly Delights. Right: AI-generated version surfaced by Google.

The first thing people saw when they searched Google for the artist Hieronymus Bosch was an AI-generated version of his Garden of Earthly Delights, one of the most famous paintings in art history.

Depending on what they are searching for, Google Search sometimes serves users a series of images above the list of links they usually see in results. As first spotted by a user on Twitter, when people searched for “Hieronymus Bosch” on Google, it included a couple of images from the real painting, but the first and largest image they saw was an AI-generated version of it.

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