Shamelessly imported from The Bad Place because this map is amazing and by amazing I mean "you stare at its wrongness, noting always one more wrong thing, until the straight lines of your world buckle and bend, warping reality all around you as you come face to face with Eldritch terror."
Comments
Wikipedia tells me that is a historic find, might want to tell the scientific community about that.
That takes care of 'got right'. I leave 'got wrong' to the rest of you.
Hatti-hatti-hatti-ho!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
1) "syria"???
2) why is assur not in assyria
3) mesopotamia isn't a country or empire
the rest i am currently painstakingly searching lol
"Neutral"
"I don't think he knows about Second Carthage, Pip."
one thing @theophite.bsky.social mentioned once is that image models like to reduplicate elements that are associated with the prompt
That's the first thing I thought when I saw this. Pretty clear that's what got used as source material.
Notice the disappearance of the _entire_ Italian peninsula in the second attempt.
abandoning its location in the ZANIE6AL BARCA Sea to ensconce itself in North Africa.
Rather than "wow that's so inaccurate!", we could react "aww look it made a funny little map, how CUTE!".
None.
- Sire, I have grave news
Terribly awesome.