When AI imagines cities, smaller communities can disappear
Jungwhan Kim. Credit: Max Esterhuizen for Virginia Tech When College of Natural Resources and Environment geospatial data scientist Junghwan Kim asked an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator to create a picture of Blacksburg, the result wasn’t quite right. “The image looked generic,” Kim said. “It didn’t capture what makes Blacksburg unique.” But when he asked…
