The street artist Banksy has recently installed a cringe pro-Establishment “anti-patriotism” statue in central London, which had been installed overnight supposedly “without the consent” of the city. The statue depicts a man who is blinded by the flag that he is carrying and stepping off of the precipice of its pedestal into the void. (link)
Banksy has actually always been a butt-kisser when it comes to the political Establishment. In recent years he has also created other pro-Establishment artworks, where for example he made a mural depicting a judge beating a pro-open borders and pro-Islam rioter with his gavel, and he has made other artworks advocating for those same types of issues as well. (link)
However, his latest work is actually made relevant when the flag on it is made to be specific for the United Nations, where other types of relevant flags would also be for the European Union, the Democratic National Committee, or the Communist Party for example.
(I think the sculpture would also actually be relevant it was taken completely literally however, if it was considered to be a “white flag of surrender” for example. But in any event it would certainly not be relevant if it was a flag of the United States.)
[Note: After a lot of prodding, I was able to create the above alternative image using Grok, but when I tried to refine it even more it started refusing to do so for some reason. I wanted to make the UN logo fill the proportions of the entire flag exactly as if it was a real UN flag, where most of the logo would be concealed by its folds, but it wasn’t able to do that where it told me it was “trying” but constantly never returned any improvements after I spent a considerable amount of time attempting to do that, where it then usually said “Grok was unable to reply. Something went wrong.”
Also I wasn’t even able to get Grok to recreate the above result again, even though I supplied the same sort of clear instructions that I originally had. I wonder if it decided to start refusing or it was told to start refusing by moderators due to the political content.
In any event, while I was in the process of doing that and seeing all of the errors that it made on the way to the final image, I kept thinking about how utterly insane someone would have to be to ride in a car that is driven by AI!]