Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee will give her first State of the City address tomorrow, taking stock of her accomplishments over the past six months and the challenges facing Oakland locally and from the federal government.

This morning, Lee’s office sent a heads-up to reporters about Tuesday’s 3:30 p.m. speech at City Hall. Atop the press release was an image of the seat of Oakland’s government — one clearly generated by artificial intelligence.

Immediately, journalists in our newsroom, who’ve collectively spent hundreds of hours at meetings and interviews in City Hall, noticed some key elements missing and fabricated in the image of the Beaux-Arts building.

We could list those elements here, but we’re not going to.

Instead, we’re inviting our readers, who are passionate about Oakland, an

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