Google Thinks Beethoven Looks Like Mr. Bean

Google's image search results for composers such as Beethoven show digital constructs that look nothing like surviving portraits, according to a column that was shared on Reddit. The author says Google's Beethoven resembles Mr. Bean on a bad day, and that Google's Chopin resembles Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men, while Karl Marx looks more like Hagrid or Jack Black. The author argues that these fakes signal a broader risk from AI-generated content polluting the web, and predicts that things will hit a wall within the next 12 months.