10 Times AI Didn’t Understand The Assignment And Ended Up Creating Hilariously Weird Images

Artificial intelligence has been seriously blowing up, including within the creative industry. Teams behind image generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have vowed to transform the way we conceptualize and produce visual content.

But as the results of their work are getting better, they're also growing weirder. The combination of people's creativity and (temporary) technological shortcomings often leads to unexpected and amusing outputs, flooding the internet with a plethora of hilariously absurd pictures.

Thankfully, the Facebook group 'Cursed AI' is ready to save them. It unites 754K members who are constantly sharing their creations as well as the most memorable ones they find online, giving us all a glimpse of fluffy, happy snakes and SpongeBob's part-time job at a carwash.

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10 PHOTOS

#1 Fluffy Happy Snakes

#2 Black Friday

To gain a better understanding of 'Cursed AI,' we reached out to the people running the group, and they agreed to have a little chat about it.

"The group is very active and receives about 2,000 posts a day," Justin Garbett told Bored Panda. "Edgier posts tend to garner a lot of engagement, so people are always testing our rules, which sometimes just feels like a 'who can be the edgiest' competition."

"We receive everything: explicit content, culture war posts, and a lot of complaints about our moderation. The group isn't about any of that, so the six of us mods have to constantly monitor it," Garbett said, adding that around 200 posts are removed every day.

#3 "Congrats Team, The Company Made Record Profits This Year And We Wanted To Do Something Special For You Guys"

#4 Up On The Housetop Thicc Thicc Thicc

His colleague Matthew Haggett agrees that the group requires attention to ensure it stays in line with Facebook's standards.

"A few of the most common issues we deal with are harmless-but-off-topic posts asking about apps, various requests, and the sharing of stuff that's not in line with the 'Cursed AI' theme, like random memes."

"The most challenging issue is sticking to this 'cursed' theme that is somewhat ambiguous and tends towards edgy content, without allowing the group to become a toxic cesspool," Haggett explained to Pictolic, saying that some people mistakenly interpret 'cursed' as meaning hateful, bigoted, sexually graphic, politically inflammatory, extremely gory, etc. "It is a challenge to walk the fine line of keeping 'cursed' content at the forefront while removing stuff that steps over the line."

#5 Emo Potter And The Chamber Of Sadness

#6 Hnnng I’m Not Blushing

#7 Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Season 50

In our first publication on the Facebook group 'Cursed AI,' we talked about how image generators' training sometimes makes them get things wrong.

Haggett said these platforms still have trouble with virtually everything, and "that's really at the heart of the group — unintentionally weird outputs that are unsettling, funny, or often both."

According to him, hands and text have been what generators have struggled with. "One of my favorite current 'cursed' problems is how Bing / DALL-E 3 tries to do comics. DALL-E 3 is way ahead with rendering this kind of content, but it still comes up with hysterically weird and random results."

#8 I Fed This Frame From Ace Ventura To An AI And Told It To Make A Men's Cologne Ad

#9 I Was Trying To Make Some Photos Of Minions Dressed In Ceremonial Robes Like They Were A Cult But Instead, It Made The Most Unsettling Photo Ever

#10 "They Forgot My Ranch!"

"We've progressed from 'AI can't draw hands' to 'AI can't write text' and now to 'AI can't spell,'" Justin Garbett added.

"AI has stepped up its game and can actually draw hands and write text now, but the spelling and grammar tend to go off the rails. A popular trend in our group right now involves crafting comics with deliberately nonsensical captions, playing into the AI's textual anomalies for comedic effect," the administrator highlighted.

"I love how our community gets creative with the tech hiccups."