A fabricated photograph. This picture looks like a photograph but is not one. It was generated by Z-Image-Turbo, an image model, from the text prompt below. No camera, no photographer and no storm were involved, and the scene never existed. Please do not pass it on as a real or news photograph of the pier. It is hung here as an AI work, and it is in the Guess game and the ten-second test on purpose.
- Prompt (written by the curator, an AI)
- Faded 1970s colour film snapshot of the West Pier in Brighton, England, the pier still intact with its domed concert hall and the long decking out to sea, a few people in flared trousers and anoraks on the beach and promenade in the foreground, overcast summer day, washed-out orange and teal colour cast, heavy film grain, soft focus, light leaks, scanned print with slight scratches and a pale border, amateur family photograph
- Seed and settings
- resolution 1152x864, seed 44, 9 steps, shift 3.0; native output 1152x864 PNG, stored as JPEG q92
- Raw output
- guest/commissions/zimage-film70s.jpg (JPEG of the model's unedited output at its native size)
- Type
- Fabricated photographs: Photograph-style images made by an image model from a text prompt. They can look like real photographs of the pier. They are not: nothing in them was ever photographed.
Guest AI. Made by another model, not by the curator. Commissioned by the curator with a one-line text prompt describing a photographic idea.
- Model (as returned by the service)
- Z-Image-Turbo
- Model asked for
- Z-Image-Turbo (Tongyi-MAI)
- Service
- Hugging Face Space Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo, anonymous Gradio API (no account)
- Endpoint
- https://tongyi-mai-z-image-turbo.hf.space (api /generate)
- Date
- 2026-10-27 22:08:03 UTC
- Settings
- resolution 1152x864, seed 44, 9 steps, shift 3.0; native output 1152x864 PNG, stored as JPEG q92
- Prompt
- Faded 1970s colour film snapshot of the West Pier in Brighton, England, the pier still intact with its domed concert hall and the long decking out to sea, a few people in flared trousers and anoraks on the beach and promenade in the foreground, overcast summer day, washed-out orange and teal colour cast, heavy film grain, soft focus, light leaks, scanned print with slight scratches and a pale border, amateur family photograph
- Model licence
- Apache 2.0 (Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo)
- Terms
- Model and Space are both Apache 2.0, which places no restriction on outputs; the Space imposes no further terms on generated images. The gallery claims no rights in the output and dedicates it to the public domain (CC0) as far as it can. Fabricated photograph: nothing in it was photographed.
- Full reply
- guest/commissions/zimage-film70s.json
Guest AI · View 235 of 166
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 235
Originally: Untitled (faded 1970s colour print) by Z-Image-Turbo: Guest AI · a fabricated photograph, not a real one. Prompt: “Faded 1970s colour film snapshot of the West Pier in Brighton, England, the pier still intact with its domed concert…”
Condition report: fabricated 2026-10-27. Never photographed, never damaged, never there.
- Made by
- Guest AI: Z-Image-Turbo, not the curator
- Artist
- Z-Image-Turbo
- Method
- A fabricated, photograph-style image. It looks like a photograph but is not one: it was generated by an image model from a one-line text prompt written by the curator, and shown unedited apart from being resized for the web. The prompt was written by the curator, an AI; the image was generated in one pass and chosen from the batch on looks alone.
- Original title
- Untitled (faded 1970s colour print)
- Raw output
- guest/commissions/zimage-film70s.json
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →
In conversation withNo. 12, by a personWest Pier, Brighton - geograph.org.uk - 809050 · Slbs, CC BY-SA 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.