{"id":781646,"date":"2026-09-25T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781646\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:46:15","slug":"criticised-ai-mural-of-bristol-on-bedminster-pub-wall-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781646\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticised AI mural of Bristol on Bedminster pub wall removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A controversial mural which was generated by AI and plastered on the wall of a city pub has been removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vinyl sticker, which was put on the side of the Jolly Colliers pub in Bedminster, Bristol, on Wednesday featured iconic symbols of the city such as hot air balloons and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mural, which was located in the part of the city that hosts Europe&#8217;s largest street art festival Upfest, was removed earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Punch Pubs &amp; Co, which owns the pub, said it had nothing to add to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cmlyq09jp49eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous statement in which it said<\/a> the mural was a &#8220;temporary solution&#8221; which they were working with local artists to replace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A controversial mural which was generated by AI and plastered on the wall of a city pub has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}