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File:King Tutankhamun brought to life using AI.gif

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Only used in a closed RfC, violates Commons:AI images of identifiable people Dronebogus (talk) 04:27, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 Keep that policy says Commons has long held that files that pose such legal or moral concerns should be deleted even if they would otherwise be within the project's scope but no legal or moral issues are present here in this neutral depiction. Also per COM:INUSE. It's a useful illustration of how moving media (animations and videos) can be created of long-dead historical people using low-budget AI available to the masses & educational content creators (there's also many paintings of the person etc), an illustration of how AI can be used for high-quality low-budget videos of historical scenes and people which can be useful for example to content creators such as documentary producers (public broadcast documentaries are already using AI in good ways) and online podcast producers (such as these with an audience of millions about ancient civilizations which just to make it a little more interesting/visual also includes some videos alongside the more important audio where showing a high-quality color realistic animation of Tutankhamun when the audio talk is about the person is better than showing nothing or just static old paintings).
These are clear realistic educational use-cases which per COM:SCOPE should be kept and again the policy you cited is about files with legal or moral issues which are not there for people long dead depicted neutrally. Prototyperspective (talk) 09:38, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delete The AI has no idea what Tutankhamun looks like. There's no actual source material for it to train on. And since AI can't say no, it instead spits out what the AI 'thinks' a modern Egyptian child in what it 'thinks' pharoh garb should be. It has no business being used in any educational context, and is therefore out of scope. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:48, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Delete I concur with TSC here. We should not be hosting speculative videos by what a machine hallucinates what Tutankhumun looks like. It is anti-educational as it would instill preconceptions in those who view it on what a child in Ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom looked like and acted. Abzeronow (talk) 04:11, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    It was based on some old painting or sculpture. Sadly the source is down so I can't tell which. It looks like various paintings of Tutankhamun and it can be labelled etc to be made with AI and not any more accurate than paintings of Tutankhamun of which there's many on Commons with no DRs despite of exactly the same potential inaccuracies. And he doesn't act much in the video; what's shown (meant to be shown) is basically just his young age – you think it does not depict this accurately? Prototyperspective (talk) 10:43, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    But old paintings and sculptures are educationally useful as such, not as supposedly accurate depictions. Sinigh (talk) 15:47, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Who said this was a supposedly accurate depiction? As said, it's for example an illustration of this kind of AI use. And for other types, it's not claimed to be accurate. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:03, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    What. I was talking about old paintings and sculptures and why they're kept "despite of exactly the same potential inaccuracies" as AI-generated files. Sinigh (talk) 20:46, 3 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete per TSC and Abzeronow, who have explained it better than I could. — Huntster (t @ c) 00:40, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete as per above and related DRs. Sinigh (talk) 04:02, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination & discussion. --Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 21:43, 11 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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