Illustration & image Human-directed
Deep Empathy
Photos of Boston, London and other cities rendered as if they had suffered the war in Syria, to make distant suffering feel near.
Where the human came in
Researchers chose the source images with UNICEF and tested whether the transformed pictures actually increased empathy before publishing.
Why it is not slop
Image generation with a measured goal and a measured result. The pictures exist to move people toward a cause, and were tested for it.
Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.