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A photograph, left, shows a mountain goat standing on a boardwalk in Glacier National Park in 2023. The image to the right was generated by artificial intelligence using a written description of the photograph.聽
Photo and AI image by Joshua Murdock
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AI-generated images show black-footed ferrets 鈥� the rarest and most endangered mammals in North America 鈥� standing near a river and development that looks like the Clark Fork River and Missoula. The AI program Stable Diffusion created the images, which are not real, based on a text prompt asking for images of the animals in Missoula.聽
AI images by Joshua Murdock
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A photograph, left, shows a black bear sitting in a tree in downtown Missoula in 2022.聽The image to the right was generated by artificial intelligence using a written description of the photograph.聽
Missoulian photo by Ben Allan Smith; AI image by Joshua Murdock
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A photograph, left, shows a bighorn sheep in Glacier National Park in 2023. The image to the right was generated by artificial intelligence using a written description of the photograph.聽
Photo and AI image by Joshua Murdock
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A photograph, left, shows a black bear strolling through a Missoula neighborhood in 2022. The image to the right was generated by artificial intelligence using a written description of the photograph.聽
Missoulian photo by Antonio Ibarra; AI image by Joshua Murdock
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A photograph, left, shows a young black bear walking on the Marshall Mountain road in 2021. The image to the right was generated by artificial intelligence using a written description of the photograph.聽
Missoulian photo by Ben Allan Smith; AI image by Joshua Murdock
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Joshua Murdock covers the outdoors and natural resources for the Missoulian.
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