It's been taken down today. How anyone could've looked at it during production and thought 'that'll do' is beyond me.
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People who like AI images have absolutely no eye for details. The whole thing looks okay so it's okay. And if you point out all the things that don't make sense, they get angry - at you, not the AI.
People have absolutely no eye for details.
FTFY.
I was a pro artist for 10 years, I can promise you, the average person has zero perception of anything past "vibe." The people online who contribute to forums like this are generally going to be people with slightly more focus and understanding.
But not much more. Here's a fun experiment you can try at home.
Go into a thread you generally agree with. Post something that supports that vibe, BUT start your paragraph with a negative word.
People will take the vibe from that one word and not consider the meaning of the rest of your post. They don't comprehend sentences or paragraphs, they take the vibe of the first charged word they see.
It's depressing how true that is.
It was not only made by AI, but approved by AI 🤖✅🖼️
ooh! ooh! can we get them put up on buildings by AI too?? Maybe we can have the buildings built by AI!! I'm sure they'll be entirely non-Lovecraftian
I totally buy that they would be non-euclidean though
There would be a random sliding glass door between the 13-14 floors
"That mural rendering absolutely moved me, you didn't just capture the subtle cosmic horrors, you took the twisted abominations to an entirely new level, and really, only someone like you could possibly pull something like this off -- Would you like to take a deeper dive and make some individual pictures of chickendogs or people with backwards faces?"
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
I think my favorite part is this chicken made out of dog.
and here's the other one. 
Here’s the whole thing: 
Wonder what happened to this guy.
Fucking gross.
Wow. They couldn't even use a good AI. This is the kind of mutilated shit from 3 years ago.
Honestly this is my favorite type of ai. I feel like there isn't a real artist that can create something that looks so correct out of the corner of the eye but so wrong under direct observation. It's the kind of unsettling that drew me to cosmic horror and body horror, but in a way that neither has ever managed to scratch.
Yeah, if anyone wound ask of me to use AI slop for a thing like this "mural", this is exactly the only thing I would submit.
I think I would respect it more if it was this. There's this amazing sense of uncanny and this creeping dread that comes from seeing these. Like slowly realizing that the patch of woods in front of you is a predator and your brain hasn't quite broken the camouflage yet.
It's an absolute shame that ai has made this so hated because a true master artist capuring that feeling will forever be assumed to be ai.
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.
that makes sense
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.
I love how obvious it is that multiple people must have seen the problem and were like, naaaah, it'll be fine...
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?
This is the uncanny valley in action.
Also: They could have paid an actual artist to do a real mural.
Ah, this will inspire many a D&D campaign. I approve.
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.
That's really out there, did they even check the output first?
I don't even understand what the prompt could have been here or what it's trying to depict. Christmas, shipwreck, horror, boat?
Serves them right.