2w ago

Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

futurism.com

Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

Fuck AI @lemmy.world

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2w ago

Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/christmas-mural-ai

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The mural:
- I love burning entire trees as firewood on ice, that's definitely a smart and cool human activity.
  
  It makes a good metaphor for climate change though.
  
  HELLO FELLOW HUMAN
  
  Lol they actually do that in Iowa. https://youtu.be/rGzWjt1fV_Q
- and here's the other one.
  
  Here’s the whole thing:
- Wonder what happened to this guy.
Wow. They couldn't even use a good AI. This is the kind of mutilated shit from 3 years ago.
I had no idea they appreciated the cinematic stylings of John Carpenter so deeply.
- I was thinking Cronenberg
- oh how I would love a Christmas Thing! splendid idea
  
  The Thing is a Christmas movie.
these are even worse than I was expecting lol
the 3-fingered man with the dog's paw on the end of a stick... what could that tool possibly be used for??
- Back scratcher But thank you for pointing that our I didn't notice it at first
I was about to say something about how Brexit must have really messed up municipal governments' budgets in order for a town to approve something this obviously shoddy, but down in the middle of the article
It remains unclear who is behind the shoddy artwork. A source familiar with the situation said the decoration had been put up by the landlord, not Côte Brasserie or the Bill’s Kingston Restaurant. Futurism has also reached out to the local municipality for clarification.
That headline is misleading
This seems like a great profile picture.
I like how whoever generated that mural looked at it and was like "yeah this should pass". Or maybe it's a manager who requested it, idk. Regardless, it's wild this got actually put up.
- My guess it was okayed by someone who checked it on their mobile without zooming in. Or more likely a troll job.
Eldritch.
Cthonic is something else.
- Cthonic just means from the underworld. Not always evil or horrifying, at least as I understand it.
Play AI games, win horrifying prizes.
Nah, that's just how rural towns look like, don't be rude.
Did you really think a racist dude like Lovecraft had imagination?
When I took acid and looked at a picture of a Hieronlymous Bosch painting, it was a bit like that. Considering my views on commercialized holidays, this mural seems entirely in tune with the festive season.
This is the uncanny valley in action.
Also: They could have paid an actual artist to do a real mural.
That's really out there, did they even check the output first?
Ah, this will inspire many a D&D campaign. I approve.
How? This is the level of quality that LLM's were spitting out ~3 years ago. It's almost a feat to get something to generate this deformed on modern stuff.
- They picked the "great value" clanker art XD
I don't even understand what the prompt could have been here or what it's trying to depict. Christmas, shipwreck, horror, boat?

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