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Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI / A Loki season 2 poster has been linked to a stock image on Shutterstock that seemingly breaks the platform’s licensing rules regard...::A promotional poster for the second season of Loki on Disney Plus has sparked controversy amongst professional designers following claims that it was created using generative AI.

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[–] topinambour_rex 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IV is used exclusively as 4 (except for clocks as someone else already commented) since the 15th century. Ancient Romans used both writing, IIII and IV.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, are there instances of other numerals having variants or was 4 a unique situation?

[–] SCB 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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other numerals having variants

Well played.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I thought the exact thing when I typed it haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have even seen, although incredibly rarely, IIV to mean 3. It's the same number of characters as III so there's no reason not really to do it.

I think it might have been done because it was more consistent with IV equalling 4.