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Background: Charlie noticed this strange version of a well-known concept art piece by Ralph McQuarrie for Star Wars (1977) in the recent book about ILM (which, other than that, is apparently fantastic). So he wanted to know if it was a printing error. But it looks more like a botched upscaling job.

I don't see why anyone would ask an AI to make a McQuarrie drawing look bad, but anything is possible in this life. Well, I guess it is? Or some weird filters? And if that's the case, it's sad that this false, slop reality is even contaminating the new official books.

This is probably a software-generated reinterpretation of the concept art. It confuses certain shapes and blends them together. In any case, I just checked my archives and couldn't find any ugly versions of this concept art.

Oh yeah, no witch hunts, please. That said, if this could serve as a lesson and everyone would double-check every single concept art piece in future artbooks...