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AI Is Creating A Surreal Future For These Historic Sites & Buildings

AI creates an imagined future for some of the world's most historic buildings.

Futuristic highway next to historic rock carved building.
Al-Dier in the future. AI generated, 2024.

Future: Chichen Itza

Chichen Itza in futuristic city.
Chichen Itza and futuristic city. AI generated, 2024.

Chichen Itza today is a bustling tourist destination, an open field among the lush jungle greenery.   The Temple of Kukulkan remains the center point of the site, but there is a great deal of space around the Temple and the other buildings.  In the AI version of the site, the open space around these historic buildings has been filled in with a large central boulevard, lined with trees and ending its vista at the Temple.  This boulevard is flanked by very modern buildings.  In the distance, small high-rise buildings loom up where the Thousand Columns Group should be (depending on the direction this image represents).  Even more disturbing than the medium density urbanism abutting the temple is the low-flying aircraft that seems a little too close to the Temple of Kukulkan for comfort.

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