Pedestrianize pike Place Market. It’s the not-so-hot take fired off everywhere from Urbanist Twitter threads to Seattle Times editorial board meetings.
But what would one of our city’s sacred landmarks actually look like without cars (and the drivers cursing their GPS directions)?
A few weeks ago, one viral rendering surfaced not from the hand of a human, but from the burgeoning imagination of artificial intelligence. The image posted by an open streets advocate depicted a decidedly shadier and more inviting road next to the market.
Pike Place Market (Seattle, Washington) pic.twitter.com/gD7a0bO7wm
— AI-generated street transformations (@betterstreetsai) July 30, 2022
This, it should be stressed, is probably one of the more practical deployments of an AI art generator. Often
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