AI Hallucinations, Part 1

Do Robots Take Mind-Altering Drugs?

Here are some head-scratching images created by AI; the italicized caption below them is the prompt given that conjured these hallucinations or wild misinterpretations.

h.g. wells meets orson welles photorealistic (Is H.G. the monster, or is Orson the monster, and why?)

vivacious doornail (I wanted to see how the opposite of “dead as a doornail” would be portrayed, but this irrationally exuberant creature looks more like a woody worm)

Walk Like a Man

an older greek man using windex to fend off an intruder in the style of magritte (note the extra hand [the prompt was inspired by the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”])

fdr having a fireside chat with john denver (Why is it that John Denver is portrayed as a bison?)

a camel with seven humps (how did seven become two?)

calaveras high school 1975 in the style of ansel adams (Nothing about this picture is right: the spelling is wrong, there is no canal near the school, the building did not/does not look like that, it’s not black-and-white (Ansel Adams is widely known for working in grayscale), and weirdest of all, what’s an elephant got to do with it? The school mascot at the time was Redskins, not Grayskins)

the trinity alps in the style of roy lichtenstein (that is obviously Yosemite Valley, not the Trinity Alps)

sugar and spice and everything nice in the style of paul detlefsen (That image neither fits the description/prompt, nor is it in the style of Paul Detlefsen)

donuts eating policemen (AI got it backwards, obviously)

a 70-year-old light-skinned african-american man without a beard or mustache driving a white sedan (what does AI not understand about “light-skinned” and “without a beard or mustache”?)

a clean-shaven 77-year-old scottish-american man with a mohawk driving a blue sedan (Again with the confusion about what “clean-shaven” means; and I didn’t specify a blue mohawk, but a blue sedan!)

mickey mouse drawing a picture of walt disney (again with the getting it backwards jazz)

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