When visitors step into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega, Alabama, they expect history, the smell of gasoline, the gleam of old sheet metal, and the kind of reverence you can only feel when you’re standing in front of cars driven by the likes of Richard Petty or Dale Earnhardt Sr. But a recent discovery inside the museum has fans fuming for a very different reason.
A photo shared by user @DaOtherShip on X shows a wall display titled “Alabamians in NASCAR.” Instead of the kind of archival photography or classic portraits fans are used to, the exhibit features a hyper-stylized, digital image that many quickly recognized as AI-generated art. The caption says it all: “Oh, that’s AI slop in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.”
To understand the outrage, you hav