The AI slop billboard in Manchester Airport. | The Lottery Winners Manchester Airport in the U.K. says it is removing a photography-themed billboard after it was mocked for being AI slop. Thom Rylance, frontman of the popular band The Lottery Winners, posted an amusing video on the band’s social media channels, pointing out the glaring errors in the image and questioning why Manchester Airport isn’t using real human creatives in their campaigns. The series of ads is for Manchester Airport itself, and they show groups of tourists with cameras around their necks. But closer inspection reveals nightmarish details like one man’s fingers that appear elongated, twisted, and unnatural. “This is a giant billboard at Manchester Airport,” says Rylance. “It’s such bad AI. Look at this picture here, look at this photographer, riddle me this, whose hand is that on the camera?” The cameras also have garbled text where the brand name is supposed to go; AI image generators notoriously struggle with text and hands .…