Scotland’s UNESCO Sites Through an AI Lens

AI art has been taking the art world by storm in recent years. It works by learning specific aesthetics and analysing thousands of images of a certain object or in this case, location. Artists will curate images and then feel the algorithm, and the AI then tries to generate new images in line with the aesthetics of real-life photos that it has learned!

Last year saw the launch of the world’s first ever UNESCO trail, bringing together some of Scotland’s most world renowned, iconic, and historic sites. Now, national tourism organisation VisitScotland, hosts the digital trail on visitscotland.com, has set out to discover what each of the 13 designations looks like according to AI.

Do you think the AI captured the beauty of our UNESCO destinations correctly? Discover some of the generated wonders below, then hop over to Scotland’s UNESCO Trail to uncover the unbeatable awe of the real thing!