With the emergence and growing popularity of artificial intelligence image generators like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, professionals in the art industry started fearing for their jobs. But despite all the advancements, the technology is still figuring things out. And nowhere is this more evident than on the Facebook group 'Cursed AI.'
"Beware, these ... creations may haunt your dreams and unravel your sanity," the people looking after the online community write in its 'About' section. "Step into the eerie world of AI-generated cursed art, where machines possess powers to create twisted and terrifying masterpieces ... These disturbingly beautiful images crafted by AI will leave you questioning the very nature of technology and its place in our world. Enter at your own risk."
However, 335,500 people ignored the warning and joined the group. Here are some of the most popular pictures that they have shared.
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Ancient Egyptian Airlines
Wait, should we call it Ancient Air or Anubis Air?
Load More Replies...Axolotls are cool, I will give you my snacks that are totally not the flesh of my enemies.
Load More Replies...Will have to buy the 1st class ticket, don't like the look of the third class seating.
Some Scenes From Barbieheimer
Fallout and radiation OK, but Glitter? How the hell are you suppossed to get rid of THAT?!
Load More Replies...A really bored and really talented guy used midjourney to merge together Barbie and Oppenheimer. Then he posted it on Reddit. Well worth trying to find it, was really well done and very entertaining
Load More Replies...Scrolling through these images, you might begin to ask yourself, if generative AI has reached such unprecedented heights in creative expression, why does it struggle with tasks even a primary school student could complete?
Well, according to Professor Seyedali Mirjalili, who is the Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimisation at Torrens University Australia, a big factor is AI's limitations with writing.
Tom Hanks On Acid At Target
That's what I was gonna say! Just put some text over it, and it becomes a believable movie poster!
Load More Replies...He’s probably number one for me, love every movie he’s in!
Load More Replies...Oh no, this is an absolute win! I would watch an entire movie where Tom Hanks does shrooms and takes a magical trip a la’ Alice in Wonderland.
Ancient Statues Doing Modern Things
One of the few times it’s okay to have three or four hands.
Load More Replies...The last one is me preparing teaching materials during the recess five minutes before the lesson because I was too sleepy the night before.
The selfie is hilarious. If we were to carve a statue to depict current society that nails it.
"Humans can easily recognize text symbols (such as letters, numbers and characters) written in various different fonts and handwriting. We can also produce text in different contexts, and understand how context can change meaning," Mirjalili explained.
"Current AI image generators lack this inherent understanding. They have no true comprehension of what any text symbols mean. These generators are built on artificial neural networks trained on massive amounts of image data, from which they 'learn' associations and make predictions."
Shoe Anatomy
when i scrolled upon this image I had nothing else to think but "....oh"
These look like the shoes from Weasleys Wizard Wheezes if they were purple rainbow
The writing is blurry, but I'm pretty sure this AI is familiar with Codex Seraphinius
Workers In Tennessee Collecting Dew From The Mountains
LOL It sorta reminds me of the UK hoax from 1956, in which David Dimbleby sells the British public on the idea that spaghetti pasta is harvested from trees, and must be dried after harvest. He showed a short film he produced about the Ticino pasta harvest. He finished with a suggestion that Brits could stand a single dried spaghetti noodle in an open tin of tomato sauce, place it in a sunny window, and watch it grow! Of course, the whole thing was an April Fools joke.
Glad I'm not the only one old enough to remember that gem.
Load More Replies...I was expecting a stronger type of "mountain dew", but this works.
AI is so weird, but utterly believable considering where we are at now.
Bill Gates Frolicking Through Windows Xp Wallpaper
Hilarious! And I love the word "frolicking". It always makes me think of cartoon sheep enjoying life in a very green field!
Me too. I'd like to be frolicking through a field with a lollipop
Load More Replies...Combinations of shapes in the training images are associated with various entities, for example, two inward-facing lines that meet might represent the tip of a pencil, or the roof of a house.
However, when it comes to text and quantities, the associations for AI must be incredibly accurate, since even minor imperfections are noticeable.
Our brains, on the other hand, can overlook slight deviations in a pencil’s tip, or a roof – but not as much when it comes to how a word is written, or the number of fingers on a hand.
Extremely Fat Cat Driving A Honda Civic At A Demolition Derby
This is not cursed. This is glorious. Everyone must bask in its glory
I generated a masterpiece with this prompt OIG-1-64cf...7af82b.jpg
Forget the car...fear the driver. He is CHONKAMONGOUS, and he is coming!
Bring Your Baby To Work Day
Oh please, that Minecraft is very popular among kids makes it obvious that they yearn for the mines!
Load More Replies...At least the miner baby has a hard hat on so it has some protection from occupational hazards and scuba baby has goggles but no breathing apparatus? What could go wrong??
I believe there’s someone in the world right now who looks exactly like that woman. The face is quite believable.
And practical. Getting them out on the ice before they have any teeth to lose is safer and more cost-effective than starting play in junior leagues.
Load More Replies...No shīt I was driving through GA and stopped at a Wendy's and the guy at the register suddenly was holding a child that I assumed was his. Not one person batted an eye like it was totally normal.
Terry Crews Acting As Snow White
How can AI get so close with Tom Hanks' face but so wrong on this one? That's somebody's face, but definitely not that of Terry Crews.
Because AI is both racially biased and racially incompetent as a result of being trained on data that is also biased. Bad data in = bad data out. There's no grand conspiracy at work though. It's a reflection of society and in particular Western dominated narratives in popular culture and technologies.
Load More Replies...Is anyone else freaked out about how much that DOESN'T look like Terry Crews - don't get me wrong, I love his work & think he'd even be a great Snow White - but AI got him wrong 🤦♀️ hell, the bottom pic with him smiling looks more like O. J. Simpson... Doing Terry dirty with that!
Not only do the photos not look like Terry, but none of them look like the same person. I've seen other AI photos that accurately looked like some celebrities, but this is way off.
Load More Replies...Let's be honest, that's the casting choice Disney should have made in the first place!
"In training images, hands are often small, holding objects, or partially obscured by other elements. It becomes challenging for AI to associate the term 'hand' with the exact representation of a human hand with five fingers," Mirjalili said about this common error.
"Consequently, AI-generated hands often look misshapen, have additional or fewer fingers, or have hands partially covered by objects such as sleeves or purses."
It's Raining Men
Let the bodies hit the floor LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOR!!
Load More Replies...wins the award for #1 quickest escalation
Load More Replies...I was told once that the Songs Let the Bodies Hit the Floor and It's Raining Men where describing the same incident; these images prove it.
I always had the theory that "It's raining men" and "Bodies" describe the same scenario, just from different points of view
The Rock Eats Rocks At The Hard Rock Cafe
I actually wanted to see him eat them, not just hold them. Disappointing.
the rock rocks those rocks at the hard rock cafe. for dessert, ROCK CANDY and a little eyebrow raise 🤨
Sunburnt British People On The Beach, Eating Full English Breakfasts And Drinking Pints Of Beer
Haha this needs some help..homie in the background of the bottom picture has got me 💀🤣 first off AI couldn't decide on looks so just mixed masculine and feminine traits and then decided this person forgot how to eat so spilled the whole plate of food onto their torso. The other looks like he went swimming in a giant bag of flaming hot cheetos and is now in excruciating pain.
Look at the mess in the top right of the first one 🤣
Load More Replies...Ah, there are three types of pint glasses 1. Is a barrel which has a handle 2. Is a schooner without a handle 3. A tankard which is usually made from pewter, has a handle and sometimes even a lid. None of them had a measurement line on them either. You just pulled a pint until the glass was full with decent head on it.
Load More Replies...Hah hah, I think that’s the very least of our worries in these images.
Load More Replies...is he??....a balloon??????.. (his nipples look like the bottom of a balloon....)
A similar issue arises when it comes to quantities. "AI models lack a clear understanding of quantities, such as the abstract concept of 'four,'" Mirjalili highlighted.
"As such, an image generator may respond to a prompt for 'four apples' by drawing on learning from myriad images featuring many quantities of apples – and return an output with the incorrect amount."
This Was Supposed To Be "Happy Woman Taking A Selfie With A Crocodile" I Don't Think Ai Knows What A Crocodile Is
Got you covered 15wud9wm7d...6-jpeg.jpg
This gives me hope that maybe AI won't take over the world and try to kill us all.
Oh! You want a picture of yourself? Oh wait, no, a picture with a lizard! Oh, sorry, I meant a picture with a dinosaur. Ohhhh, okay, my bad. A picture with an alien! NO???? WHAT DO YOU WANT WOMAN!!!!!
Gymnastics
I am a gymnast. I can assure you that this true and this is gymnastics at it's best.
That's just terrifying- it gets worse as you go down from the pic at the top!
Sauron Is Victorious On The Battle Of Black Friday
It is still Ai, but it looks like this was done when MidJourney started to improve. You’ll still see that some of the faces and hands are messed up/distorted if you zoom in. MidJourney is a neural Ai engine that is constantly trained on different artwork (unfortunately a lot of copyrighted artwork) data. It improves as it is trained on more data and prompts.
Load More Replies...Omg ai recognizes how chaotic black Friday is, i have an idea my fellow mha fans
Sign Language
They could fix the hands rendering problem if they trained it on various sign languages!
Load More Replies...https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/why-ai-generated-hands-are-the-stuff-of-nightmares-explained-by-a-scientist
Load More Replies...https://api.deepai.org/job-view-file/56ffd9d5-83ae-47dd-844e-4c23cbd1b613/outputs/output.jpg?art-image=true
But before we label AI image generators as incompetent fools, it's important to remember that text-to-image and text-to-video conversion is a relatively new concept in artificial intelligence. Current generative platforms are "low-resolution" versions of what we can expect in the future.
Confused Extremely Fat Cat Checking A Map While Riding A Bull At A Rodeo
"extremely fat cat _ " is my go to prompt now because oh my god the masterpieces, may I present: "a very angry extremely fat cat wearing a stetson and riding a carousel" OIG-13-64c...140855.jpg
Extreme Waiting Competition
This is an Olympic sport in the UK. We can queue for hours. Did you see the queues for walking past the Queen's coffin?
Load More Replies...“Extreme Competition Of Who Can See The Farthest”
You can see over some vast distances. The moon, for instance, is 239,000 miles away. I can get a decent close up with my $100 Kodak Pixpro digital. Venus is around 24 million miles away. Again, considering the distance, I can actually get a photo of our closest planetary neighbors. Sun, 93 million miles. but screw that. You can see Andromeda, and it's our closest galactic neighbor, a mere 2.5 million light years, or so Wikipedia claims. So, don't sell yourself short. Superman should see vast distances so well. 100_0945-6...feedaf.jpg
You can see over some vast distances. The moon, for instance, is 239,000 miles away. I can get a decent close up with my $100 Kodak Pixpro digital. Venus is around 24 million miles away. Again, considering the distance, I can actually get a photo of our closest planetary neighbors. Sun, 92 million miles. but screw that. You can see Andromeda, and it's our closest galactic neighbor, a mere 153,000 light years. So, don't sell yourself short. Superman should see vast distances so well.
Vegans Trying To Pack In Enough Calories To Make It Through The Night
Many kinds of cookies, fries, chips, soft drinks, vegan ice cream... there are so many unhealthy high-calorie vegan foods and drinks, that even as a vegan it's not that hard to get overweight. A lot of people find it easier to lose weight on a vegan diet, but it all depends on what you're eating, you can easily gain weight too if you're making lots of unhealthy choices as a vegan.
Being vegan does not make you instantly super skinny, chips (fries in America), Oreo's, crisps (chips in America) bread and pasta etc are all vegan, you can easily get vegan cake and biscuits too. Most of the vegans I know are a healthy, normal weight! Veganism is not an eating disorder.
An AI created the image, not a person. It doesn't know any better. It doesn't know anything really.
Load More Replies...I laughed harder than I should have. I love how AI assumes that all vegans are hippies
Very high calorie vegan diet is the normal say in India and we didn't even realized it was vegan all this time. Pongal/vada for breakfast or 14 idli/chutney or a vegetable biriyani!!!
This is so offensive to vegans. I'm vegan and this is not what being a vegan looks like.
"With advancements being made in training processes and AI technology, future AI image generators will likely be much more capable of producing accurate visualisations," Mirjalili predicted.
"It's also worth noting most publicly accessible AI platforms don't offer the highest level of capability. Generating accurate text and quantities demands highly optimised and tailored networks, so paid subscriptions to more advanced platforms will likely deliver better results," he added.
So we should enjoy 'Cursed AI' while we can. Content like this might be getting rarer and rarer in the future!
Extremely Fat Cat Ufc Fight
There's a few of the prompts on this post and they're all by the same person, which makes this even better.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of B Kliban's "Sumo Cat" which was quite popular in Hawaii in the 80's. Vintage T-shirts of Sumo Cat now go for $60 on ebay!!
I used to have one of those shirts as I kid that I got on a trip to Hawaii. I wore it freaking everywhere
Load More Replies...Extreme Walking-On-Waters Competition Among Jesus Christ Doppelgangers (I Love How Ai Keeps It Real With The Boards)
This needs to be real, and every hyper religious person be forced to attend!
2nd pictures. It looks like they have inflated tube man on a stick.
Grass Fed vs. Grain Fed Cowboys
Send up of grass fed Vs grain fed livestock, obviously.
Load More Replies...Oh geez, now whenever the cowboys come in to buy feed at work this is all I'm going to be thinking of. Sure it's for your horses, buddy. Sure.
Please for the love of god print this out, put it on the wall behind the register, and tell us what the reactions are
Load More Replies...I'd love to know the exact AI prompts used. For example were the prompts literally just the title, or did they use "starving cowboys eating grass" and "muscular shirtless cowboys eating grain"?
only raw wheat no baking or refinement even flour is to far
Load More Replies...Unusable Bike Race
You'd probably be making a face like that too if you had to ride bikes like that! 😂
Load More Replies...Okay . . . .if you are LAST, did you win because your bike was useless and unusable OR do you win by being the first to cross the line despite your bike being unusable?
Marathon For People With No Sense Of Direction
Clearly the ridiculously photogenic man didn't sign up for this race.
Extreme Mushrooms Eating Challenge
GUYS, THEY WEREN'T LYING, them shrooms making me see things..
Load More Replies...all of these mushrooms came from under my bed (it hasnt been cleaned in like months) (jk)
Load More Replies...Cursed Ai
Try And Get Anything To Breakdance, I Dare You. I Haven't Seen A Model That Gets It Right Ever
“Soldiers Competing In A Endless Fried Chicken Eating Competition During A Hurricane In Florida”
Yeah! The guy's shoulder is covered in curry! AI pays attention to details 😌
Load More Replies...Nobody should be eating soggy fried chicken skin i don't care if they're AI that's wrong
Toilet Paper Throwing Festival
When the lockdowns were over and we actually had toilet paper again...
We used to do that to trees. Old American tradition, like a May Pole!
Why didn't BP censor the words 'toilet paper'? There may be Americans in.
Just worry about the Religious Right adherents. Most of us can handle it.
Load More Replies...I wondered the same. Cant AI create human faces properly?
Load More Replies...Extreme Red Bull Drinking Competition, Turns Out It Wasn't A Good Idea
A Security Guard Watching A Pregnant Woman Dig Through A Trash Can At A Shell Station
I think that's part of the fun of creating bizzare AI images...string together random stuff and see what happens
Load More Replies...Are those body parts in the bin bags? Presumably that’s where AI gets its extra limbs from to use later
They're all cursed, but the second one💀... he just politely watching her while she does what the box of plastic bags says not to do
Why would anyone even think of trying to create that? Maybe AI should take over the world...
Ok in the last ont the secureity guard is the pregnant one. Apologies for the bad spelling.
People Using The Meat Isle Of A Grocery Store As A Bath
Cursed Ai
Gotta drive around and look at The Poors like it's a zoo?
Load More Replies...Incredible how the white supercars managed to stay clean... Teflon coating? 😂
The 1st Annual Gen Z Tide-Pod Eating Competition In Costa Rica. And The Winner Is
Extreme Lava Eating Competition
Pov: Sly Stallone Is A Part Time Manager At Your Local McDonald's
Why does he look like a caricature drawing? I think AI was programmed to make all faces look like caricature drawings 🤣
Old Men Start It, Young Men Fight It, Nobody Wins, Everybody In The Middle Dies, And Nobody Tells The Truth! - Rambo serving you at the Maccas counter
Can Someone Give Me A Hand Here?
There's at least 6 toes there. And one of em has a toe growing out of a toe.
Gentlemen of culture, we meet again . .. . . . So . . .Kill, marry or . . . . .
"Huhhh??"
I need unsee juice for my eyes, and unexist juice for this photo, it is terrifying me
Some Men Went To The Barbie Movie And Got A Little Upset
I wouldn't want to sit next to him. He'd be shovelling popcorn into his mouth with both hands and groping at the same time lol
Load More Replies...I think they were just from the lava eating com, their faces are melting
"Guys On Fast Speedboat Cooking Stir Fry Rice With A Lot Of Flames"
The faces on all of them are creeping me out. Why is AI so bad with faces?
Load More Replies...I once tried to get a picture of a hot dog dressed as Marie Antoinette riding in a golden carriage.
Load More Replies...A Funeral Home Throwing A Welcome Party To Client Number One Thousand
Obsessed with the fact that the second image is just a coffin full of peanuts
It's not 1000, it's 100I 0 0000 0 0 0 IVI 1 0 0 0 0 00000 100000 Also, they are too happy for a funeral lol
I don't think it's patient 1000. It's patient 0000000000000001000101010
Early 2010s Memes Reimagined With Ai
Wonka has seen things, and so have we. Terrible things... like this Wonka
This pic was from Marty Feldman's audition for the title role.
Load More Replies...A Typical Day On Public Transit In My Favourite City Toronto, Canada
Gopro Footage Of People Standing Barefoot On Pizza
I'm cutting off those extra toes if you dare set foot on my pizza
You monster. Because if you i will never be able to look at pizza the same 😭
Jeep Owners Parking On Random Things
Sunburnt British People In Disney World, Florida, Eating Popcorn From A Big Bucket
I obviously go on completely different holidays to the rest of my country as like the other photo- I always use sun cream (as do all the people I know)
Australian Crossing Guards. (It’s Just A Joke, I Love Australians)
Is his torso that long or is it two people in a crossing guard vest?
Warning? Maybe darling? Darling, Naaaaur! Sounds correct, doesn't it?
Foods That Should Never Be Served At A Mcdonald’s Made With Ai
"Man's Face With Something Weird And Eerie Going On In There"
Batman Coaching His Wife Through Childbirth
“Photo Of British Person Crying Because His Food Is Too Spicy Because It Has Black Pepper”
Whilst most British people eat very spicy curries on a regular basis there is always that one friend who thinks ketchup is spicy. This is him.
Me, pretending I can eat pepper in a bad restaurant. Quit making fun of me!
Not too long ago my brother chomped down on what he thought was a cluster of capers but was in fact greenish peppercorns 🥵🔥🌋
In my experience Irish people are just as bad about spice if not worse!
Extreme Prisoner Soap Dropping Competition
As someone who has been to one of these, I can assure you that this is what it's like. /s
On A Date, Kinda Nervous
Was Supposed To Be A Boxing Match Between Elbow And Penne But Close Enough
Meme But Cursed By Ai (I Have No Idea Why Ai Made Him White)
AI is racist but it’s not its fault. Train on pictures of white people -> make pictures of white people.
Extreme Sunburn Competition In Florida. As A Redhead, This One Hurts. 😄
Half Peanut Half Raisin Baby
What Do You Think The Sign Says
i LOVE AI text :-D edit: in this stadium! Not when it will be perfect in the near future and you cant tell fake from real O_O
On BP, this could be any of a hundred languages, and we will accept and enjoy the thought.
Extreme Charcoal Eating Contest
Never walk across charcoal wearing clown shoes or flippers. You'll creates a huge carbon footprint.
Meme But Cursed By Ai
Agreed. Geandads absolutely ruined my life. Under no circumstances should you mess with them
I can confirm this. I was a millionaire before getting my hands on some Geandads. My life has not remained the same 😭
Load More Replies...Ange dad's? Pronounced like angry without the r.
Load More Replies...When You Made It To The Bathroom, But Its Too Late
I was reading this at bedtime. Now I'm afraid to go to sleep!
Load More Replies...AI has a hard time with fingers and toes. Long ones, extra or too little. Joined. Im curious as to why.
This whole category is beyond disgusting and sickening. I just couldn't go through it all. It was like a horror film.
I use AI for power points in class, I think I’ll just use Google Image for now…
I was reading this at bedtime. Now I'm afraid to go to sleep!
Load More Replies...AI has a hard time with fingers and toes. Long ones, extra or too little. Joined. Im curious as to why.
This whole category is beyond disgusting and sickening. I just couldn't go through it all. It was like a horror film.
I use AI for power points in class, I think I’ll just use Google Image for now…
