The above image is a slide taken from a lecture titled The Eureka Machine by Dr Richard Socher for Technical University of Dresden circa 2024 [link].
The lecture is about how scientists will use artificial intelligence to do science better. It sounds like his team made their own AI model, and they're using it to do science. Halfway through the lecture, we see this slide introducing a new section of his talk. And it's a great image for visualizing the increasing layers or scales of science - but he specifically says he made it using his model. So this is an example of the scientist "making art" for their own purposes.
And next, and I swear this is the last artificially generated image I save for posterity's sake. It's the thumbnail image for a science article.
This isn't the only one, but it's still rare, and here's why. When a research group either decides to publicize their work, or has a science writer cover their work, a thumbnail image is added to the article. That image might be the photograph of the science writer themselves, or of a science photographer. Or it might be a diagram or model composed by the scientists themselves. Then again it might be simply stock photography either purchased or borrowed. What it never is, is an image created by the scientists. And that's because scientists aren't artists. Until now. I'm not saying that's who created this image, but the only shred of credit says "Credit: AI-generated image"; and the filename is "tasting-a-cake-in-virt", so that's what we assume. This won't be unusual at all in a few years. For now though, it's got its own dedicated post to memorialize it.
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