PA covers viewed through AI

My friend Michel Gareau (co-founder of Protocuture Addicts and cover illustrator for the first issues) recently had the idea to ask Copilot (with just one simple prompt) to redraw his covers of issues 1 and 2 in a realistic style. The result is stunning !

PA #1

PA #2

I can only wonder what we could have done in those days (with the magazine or for my university research) if we had had this power at our disposal? Would it have been a good thing? What more could we do? And can this still be considered art ? Interesting questions…