According to ChatGPT, “Art is a means of creative expression that stimulates the senses, engages the mind, and enriches our cultural and intellectual experiences.” And while that might be the goal for various artificial intelligence programs that create pieces of “artwork” in the blink of an eye, the results are often much more hilarious than anticipated.

In honor of the new age of AI art that we’re living in, Bored Panda has scoured the internet to find images of some of the most hilarious AI art fails the world has ever seen. Keep reading to also find a conversation we were lucky enough to have with Angus Russell, the founder of NightCafe, and if you’re an artist yourself, rest easy. It doesn’t look like AI will be taking your job any time soon!

#1 I Wanted To Generate A Picture Of A Fisherman That Catches A Salmon Using AI, And This Is What I Got

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#2 AI Needs To Work On People Holding Their Umbrellas

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#3 Wiener Dogs Race

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While AI art has become increasingly popular in recent years, it has likely been around much longer than you realize. According to TechTarget, some of the first versions of artificial intelligence art appeared in the late 1960s. However, the first notable program came about in 1973 when Harold Cohen developed Aaron. Aaron “was an AI assistant that used a symbolic AI approach to help Cohen create black-and-white art drawings,” Sean Michael Kerner at TechTarget explains. But following Aaron, it took many decades for AI art to find its way into the mainstream.

In 2014, discussions started about GANs, a foundation of generative AI technology, and in 2015, Google released DeepDream, which uses “a convolutional neural network (CNN) as an experimental approach to AI art,” Kerner says. And over the past 5 years, AI art has only become more and more prevalent, as Ganbreeder was released in 2018 (later rebranded as Artbreeder), using GAN models to allow us to use AI technology to edit existing images and even create new ones.

#4 Practicing Some Yoga

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#5 It Turns Out Lots Of People Can Do Handstands

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#6 Sometimes AI Doesn’t Do What You Want It To Do

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AI art also made headlines in 2018 after an artist going by the name of Obvious auctioned off a painting titled Edmond de Belamy, that he created using GAN models, for a whopping $432,500. “Sold in an original gilded wood frame, the portrait depicts a man dressed in a dark frock coat with a plain white collar showing underneath,” Dezeen reported at the time. “The work looks unfinished, with indistinct, blurry facial features and large areas of canvas left blank.” This was the first AI-generated piece of artwork to be sold by a major auction house, but there will likely be many more in the future.

In May 2022, Google launched its Imagen technology as a new way to create AI art, which uses text-to-image. Since then, various other programs have popped up, including Stability AI, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, Prisma and more. And while AI art has long been a controversial topic among those in the art community, TechTarget notes that some of the ways artists can utilize AI are for art therapy, democratization, education, enhancing their existing creations, to create completely new pieces and for inspiration for new pieces.  

#7 Stunning Images Made By AI

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#8 Semi-Failed Attempts At Coaxing Midjourney Into Recreating Smudge Lord

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#9 80s Grocery Store Shopping. When Shopping Cart Becomes Part Of You

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To gain more insight on the topic of AI art, we reached out to Angus Russell, the founder of NightCafe, an online AI art studio. Angus noted that it can be quite difficult for beginners to achieve what they’re going for when creating AI art. “A newcomer will typically write a prompt like ‘A dog riding a surfboard’. Depending on the model they’re using, they may get something that looks like a dog riding a surfboard, but it most likely won’t look very good because there’s no information about how the image should look in general,” the founder shared. “E.g. should it look like a photo or a painting? What kind of style? What breed of dog? Etc.”

#10 This Was An Attempt In Midjourney To Make An Image Of My Narrator With A “Cocky Expression”

I guess they took it literally and made him into an abominable rooster-man. Good thing they didn’t take the word “cocky” in a different sense.

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#11 Nice Family

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#12 Sometimes, When Attempting To Do Handstands, You Just Need A Flexible Buddy

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“An experienced prompter, on the other hand, would write a prompt like ‘A cute golden retriever riding a surfboard at dusk. Intricate details, HDR, beautifully shot, hyperrealistic, sharp focus, 64 megapixels, perfect composition, high contrast, cinematic, atmospheric, moody’. All these extra keywords give the AI a lot more guidance, and the keywords that experienced prompters use are generally known to be well understood by the AI,” Angus explained.

#13 I Honestly Have More Fun With AI When It Does Some Nonsense Like This. At No Point In The Prompt Did I Come Close To Asking For This, But Hey, Happy Accidents

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#14 Crazy AI

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#15 Steve Buscemi Won’t Tolerate Slow Tortoises

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We were also curious if there are any types of art that AI is particularly skilled at creating. “It depends on the model you’re using, but all models are generally very good at generating things like landscapes, lighthouses, architecture, beaches, etc.,” Angus noted. “Older models are generally not good at generating faces without making them look weird and distorted, but newer models are getting much better at that, to the point that most AI art these days seems to revolve around people and faces (often in an anime or concept art style).”

#16 I Love When This Happens

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#17 AI Is Having Some Difficulty With Roller Skates

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#18 A Man Mansplaining A Woman On How To Eat A Hamburger

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Angus shared that the best and most creative AI artwork he’s seen was an old piece, made in the days before DALL-E and Stable Diffusion were available. “The models were a lot slower and a lot less capable,” he noted. “But this AI artist managed to do something truly incredible. He sliced a photo of the Mona Lisa up into 9 rectangles, then used each of those rectangles as a ‘start image’ for 9 different generations with a post-apocalyptic theme, which caused the post-apocalyptic images to vaguely resemble the shapes and colors of the start image. Then, he stitched those images back together in such a way that if you squint, you can still make out the Mona Lisa.” If you’d like to check out the image, you can find it right here. 

#19 According To AI, “Cats Tap Dancing In A Cafe” Is The Stuff Of Nightmares

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#20 Sometimes AI Fails Completely. This One Should’ve Been A Knight Rider

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#21 What’s Your Favorite Raw Vegetable To Eat With Your Friends?

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When it comes to some of the worst pieces Angus has seen, he noted that repeated heads and extra limbs are quite common and can be very funny. (As we can see from this list!)

“The more descriptive you can be, the better,” the founder says. “Use natural language and full sentences to describe the main subject of your image, but then you can just add comma-separated keywords such as ‘beautiful, golden hour, pastels’ to change the overall style.”

#22 This AI Fail

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#23 New Beauty Standards

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#24 Just Casually Driving

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Angus also addressed the fact that many people are opposed to AI art, as they see it as taking away jobs from real artists. “As the founder of an AI art community, I see it entirely differently,” he shared. “Creating beautiful and/or funny images is fun. Most of our users have no intention to sell their art or do anything with it other than perhaps share the good ones on Facebook or Instagram. Instead, it’s all about the process of creating the art, and the way that it makes you feel. It can be therapeutic, an escape from the world, and give you a sense of pride and creativity that you may not have felt before. Give it a go!”

If you’d like to create your own pieces on NightCafe, you can do so right here!

#25 Fishermen

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#26 True Love

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#27 The Prompt Was “Cosplay” And Nothing Else

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If you’ve previously been worried about the threat of AI taking over the world, we hope this list has put your mind at ease. If these programs can’t even create simple images without failing miserably, I think the future of humanity is safe (for now). Keep upvoting the pics that you find most hilarious, and feel free to share your thoughts on AI artwork in the comments below, pandas. Then, if you’re interested in checking out another article featuring AI art fails, look no further than right here!

#28 “The Office” Told By AI

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#29 Parkour

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#30 This Unfortunate Fail

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#31 Let AI Create The Image

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#32 Prompt: Eharmony Commerical Of Mother Doing Handstand While Snuggling Her Husband

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#33 Sometimes It Happens

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#34 Pretty Girls Sunbathing

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#35 AI Of Hairy Legs And Feet

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#36 AI Failure Gems

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#37 Someone Doesn’t Seem To Understand How Spas Work

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#38 Gymnastics

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#39 One Of The AI Arts

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#40 Parenting Is Hard

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#41 Yoga With Toddlers

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#42 “Model Drinking Water”

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#43 The Weird Creature And The City

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#44 Still Can’t Trust AI With Arms

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#45 Gender Reveal Party

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#46 AI Has A Hard Time Creating Pedicure Ideas

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#47 Cat Breakdancing Contest. One Of Them Even Has Human Legs

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#48 So I Was Trying To Make Images Of Deadpool Sitting In An Acrylic Chair. Let’s Just Say That I Was Having Issues With Getting Midjourney To Understand The Task At Hand

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#49 AI Fail

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#50 Completely Normal Picture

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#51 This Weird Family

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#52 Struggling With Shoes

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#53 Prompt: Sloths Barbecuing Pineapple On The Grill

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#54 “Model Eating An Ice Cream” Still Needs A Lot More Work

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#55 I Was Just Trying To Create A Cat Burglar With Thigh High Boots And Black Hair

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#56 Since AI Is So Bad At Creating Hands, I Went With “No Hands”

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#57 A Typical Lovely Day In Italy

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#58 Ladies And Gentlemen, Doja Cat

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#59 This Is Exactly Why I Never Took Up Yoga

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#60 Camping Indeed Looks Like That

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#61 What’s Wrong With AI? It Thinks That Happy Children Must Be Crying, Screaming, Mutilated And Deformed

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#62 AI Made This Taylor Frisk

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#63 Here You Go. I Don’t Care. I Hate The Pool Anyways

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#64 Well, I Asked For This Photo Of My Girlfriend And I In A “Spaghetti Western Style”

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#65 This Is Amazing

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#66 Cursed AI

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#67 I Have A Theory Of What Went Wrong Here

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#68 I Just Wanted Some Cool Pictures Of Spider-Man

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#69 Christian Guys Trying To Impress The Girls After Fellowship Lunch

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#70 These AI-Generated Photos Are So Strange

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#71 Plumbers Saving Women Stucked In Washing Machines

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#72 Too Many Hands

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#73 Midjourney Failing Me Again With Fashion Design

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#74 Prompt: Miley Cyrus Jumping, Wearing A Green Tailored Suit, High Fashion Photo Shoot. Translated: Demented Miley, Mouth Wide Open, Alien Fingers On The Left Hand, An Extra Foot

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#75 Prompt: “Beautiful White Kittens With Blue Eyes In A Pink Gift Box”

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#76 Three Hands, A Cow With A Chicken’s Comb, And A Kind Of Prehistoric Bird. This Girl Lives In A Very Radiated Farm, But Her Hair Is Fantastic

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#77 Another Patient For The Chiropractor

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#78 I Asked AI For “A House Made Out Of Cheese”. It Gave Me The IKEA Version

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#79 Is That Conan O’Brien Emerging From Her Shoulder?

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#80 It Was Supposed To Be A Starfish

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#81 She Got Some Legs

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#82 A Woman Getting Massage In A Garden

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#83 Jennifer Lawrence As A Mom

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#84 Handstands Certainly Have Some Interesting And “Flexible” Results

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#85 Super Fail

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#86 Fusion

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#87 Figure Skating

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#88 Models

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#89 Yet Another Unrealistic Beauty Standard For Women

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#90 Jennifer Lawrence Under Candle Light

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#91 Twilight In AI

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#92 My Prompt Was “The Most Annoying Things On The Planet Earth,” And AI Really Said These Hands

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#93 Eclipse In AI: Unhinged

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#94 Viral TikTok Dance

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#95 I Tried Making Something, But It Came Out A Little Ruff

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#96 At First, I Thought V5.2 Wasn’t Doing As “Interesting” Of Handstand Prompts. Boy Was I Wrong

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#97 You Truly Appreciate The Reality After Getting This

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#98 Flying Mold That Goes Directly To Your Mouth

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#99 Blending In To The Car

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#100 Extra Finger

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#101 Those Hands And Fingers

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#102 Ok, I Got It. Never Put An “Excited Smile” And Sea Creatures Together

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#103 When AI Art Goes Horribly Wrong, A Mutant-Superhero Is Born

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#104 This Wasn’t What I Was Going For

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#105 Unlike The One Ring From “The Lord Of The Rings” This One Just Makes Half Of Your Finger Invisible

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#106 I Swear I Typed “Flowers In Bubbles” And Not “Heads In Bubbles”

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#107 Indiana Jones And Lara Croft, The Tomb Raiders Of The Lost Ark

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#108 Australian Capybara Burnout Competition

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#109 Don’t Feel Bad If You Can’t Draw Hands, Even AI Can’t Do It

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#110 Wrestlers

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#111 You Can’t Do That With Your Fingers

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#112 Anatomically Impossible Pole Dancing

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#113 “An Image Of A Mother And Daughter With Long Golden Hair Wearing White Dresses, Walking Next To A Unicorn In An Enchanted Forest”

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#114 Hit By A Truck

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