The TV3 program "Bez Tabu" drew attention to strange errors in the illustrations of a brochure sent to Latvian schools. In some drawings, children are depicted with six fingers, one boy has three legs, and another has three arms. Readers speculate that the images may have been created using artificial intelligence. The mother of first grader Sandra is surprised that such illustrations passed inspection. She is also curious about the cost of producing such a publication. The Child Protection Center explained that they received the final version of the brochure only at the end of August, when it had already been sent to schools. They decided not to recall the print run immediately, preferring to seek a solution to the problem together with the contractor. The center's director, Natalia Aprane, noted that the material was tested before publication, but the defects in the images went unnoticed at that time. However, according to her, the textual information contained in the brochure is correct. A total of 20,000 copies were printed. The development and delivery of this and another brochure cost a total of 29,000 euros. The head of the publishing house "Liels un mazs," Alise Nigale, assessed the result much more harshly, calling what she saw a flagrant unprofessionalism. Artificial intelligence researcher Evalds Urtans, in turn, believes that the issue is not with the technology itself, but with the quality of its application. According to him, such errors could have been avoided with thorough checking of the finished images.
