[glimshe]

As far as we know, there are no photos of Vikings. It's reasonable for someone to use AI for learning about their appearance. If working as intended, it should be as reliable as reading a long description of Vikings on Wikipedia.

[tycho-newman]

We have tons of viking material culture you can access directly without the AI layer.

AI as learning tool here feels misplaced to me.

[FrozenSynapse]

what's the point of image generators then? what if i want to put vikings in a certain setting, in a certain artistic style?

[rhdunn]

Then specify that in your prompt. "... in the style of ..." or "... in a ... setting".

The point is that those modifications should be reliable, so if you want a viking man/woman or an asian/african/greek viking then adding those modifiers should all just work.

[trallnag]

Than put that into the prompt explicitly instead of relying on Google, OpenAI, or whatever to add "racially ambiguous"