Giants of Gondwana: The Dinosaurs of Ancient Southern Continents
It’s a good illustration, even if it is AI-generated. However.
| Should this cover be in the Lousies? |
Giants of Gondwana: The Dinosaurs of Ancient Southern Continents
It’s a good illustration, even if it is AI-generated. However.
| Should this cover be in the Lousies? |
That font, and those colors, are what I use to make flash cards at the local school. Eye catching and easy to read, with no background.
That middle [purple] line should lighten up and go above the Triceratops. At least.
I have a problem with taking a very nice image and doing THAT to it.
I have an even bigger problem with this bit from the blurb:
Why stop at facts when you can explore groundbreaking paleontological discoveries, and ignite your imagination.
I’m sorry, but if you’re going to advertise your book as falling into the “Science & Math › Biological Sciences › Animals › Dinosaurs” category, then you darn well ought to “stop at facts.” If you want to “ignite your imagination” with non-facts, write a novel.
I read a LOT of academic books — it’s what I do for fun. This title is trying hard to sound like an academic work, but even a small book from a tiny university is going to have better text design than that. Text gets first priority.
In theory, I’ve got nothing against a carefully honed AI image if you can’t afford to hire a professional palaeo-artist. But I would have expected an attempt at accuracy. This animal can’t decide if it’s supposed to be a triceratops or a styracosaurus, neither of which existed in the south anyway. It’s a bit like a modern book about African wildlife decorated with a grizzly bear on the cover. With moose antlers.
That “generic African savannah” setting doesn’t pass the sniff test either. Grasses existed in the Cretaceous period, but broad sweeping grasslands like that didn’t exist until very recently, about 8 million years ago.
Man, what a killjoy. Next you’re gonna tell me that velociraptors can’t even open doors!
Also, I will pay any mad geneticist to make me a grizzly bear with antlers.
Well that’s…. why would you want a geneticist to make you a grizzly bear with antlers?
When I was going through puberty my ideal was to become like Johnny Weissmuller in competition swimming trim.
Grizzlies are allowed to put on weight, and to kill people. The antlers would just add panache.
A web site for lawyers that I visit weekly has frequently criticized AI for generating legal briefs, with case citations perfect in form but citing cases never adjudicated in real life. They call it Artificial Intelligence Hallucinations. In a lot of contexts AI will give you what you ask for, but that does mean what it gives you is factual or truthful, or will stand up in court.