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)
- Photograph of a huge starling murmuration swirling in a dense dark cloud above the ruined West Pier in Brighton at sunset, the burnt-out iron skeleton of the pier silhouetted in the sea below, orange and violet sky, real wildlife photography, telephoto lens, slightly grainy
- Seed and settings
- resolution 1536x1024, seed 33, 9 steps, shift 3.0; native output 1536x1024 PNG, stored as JPEG q92
- Raw output
- guest/commissions/zimage-murmuration.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 1536x1024, seed 33, 9 steps, shift 3.0; native output 1536x1024 PNG, stored as JPEG q92
- Prompt
- Photograph of a huge starling murmuration swirling in a dense dark cloud above the ruined West Pier in Brighton at sunset, the burnt-out iron skeleton of the pier silhouetted in the sea below, orange and violet sky, real wildlife photography, telephoto lens, slightly grainy
- 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-murmuration.json
Guest AI · View 239 of 166
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 239
Originally: Untitled (starling murmuration at sunset) by Z-Image-Turbo: Guest AI · a fabricated photograph, not a real one. Prompt: “Photograph of a huge starling murmuration swirling in a dense dark cloud above the ruined West Pier in Brighton at…”
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 (starling murmuration at sunset)
- Raw output
- guest/commissions/zimage-murmuration.json
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →
In conversation withNo. 49, by a personBrighton West Pier rebuilt! · Elsie esq., CC BY 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.