They Mystery of Magdalene, My Skepticism, and AI

I love a good mystery. Especially when it is in public view, like the statue pictured below. (Click to enlarge.) While in downtown Chicago yesterday I had some time on my hands and took a stroll along Michigan Avenue south of the Chicago River. As I said here, I felt like a tourist in my own town. I stumbled across a statue that seemed new to me. I was so taken by the statue and its placement between, and prominently in front of two iconic statues from the 1920’s called The Bowman and The Spearman that I wanted to know more about what I thought was newer artwork. Given that there was no identification plaque anywhere near the statue, I decided to do what most of us do these days and look up information on the Internet. I plopped a copy of the photo I took into Google search box and the result yielded the name of the statue as Magdalene by Dessa Kirk. That’s a link to a Facebook profile. Intriguingly Kirk doesn’t seem to have a website I can find, and examining her photos, I saw only…