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Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop using AI this way!

I've posted about generative AI many times on my other blogs (UncommonContent and WriteWayPro), though very rarely here. I was frustrated myself when trying to get Google Gemini to make me a picture when it kept the figure with only one leg despite my telling it 4 times to give the person two. And this is the tech that people idolize today!  That's not something I would even bother to write about after my other frustrations with generative AI. But then I came across this in my X  feed. It is so bad that I just had to make say something about it here.  It not just that the people in it have totally dead eyes. It not just that  they not really look like what the Hasmonean probably looked like. It's that they couldn't even get the number of branches on the menorah right! The menorah in the Bais Hamikdash had 7. This has 13! Each side has 5, plus there are 3 in the center. While that could be an artistic kind of candelabra design, it is nowhere near any type of menorah o...

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