Likely Normal

We’ve all marveled at those flawless AI-generated images—until we encounter the ones that look like the algorithm had a stroke mid-prompt. You ask for a simple bowl of fruit and get a surrealist nightmare where bananas have teeth and the apple is judging you. Request a dog playing fetch, and suddenly you’re staring at a creature that’s 30% golden retriever, 70% vacuum cleaner, with a tennis ball for an eye.

The real comedy comes when you realize these monstrosities are the AI’s best attempt at following directions. That professional headshot you needed? Congratulations, you now have a portrait where your face is perfectly symmetrical—because the AI gave you two noses for balance. That “cozy cabin in the woods” you envisioned? Enjoy your new treehouse with walls made of raw chicken breasts.

Somewhere between our overly specific prompts and the AI’s literal interpretation, art becomes chaos. Maybe the fingers are mangled. Maybe the cat has six ears. Maybe the “romantic sunset” looks like a nuclear explosion in a crayon factory. But that’s the beauty of it—these glitchy masterpieces remind us that creativity, even artificial creativity, is gloriously unpredictable. So the next time your AI art generator spits out a dog with human hands or a bicycle made of spaghetti, just smile. You didn’t get what you wanted, but you absolutely got something memorable.

For fun, check out what AI did when I asked it to update this collage to make it more professional. I asked it to keep the art, but change color palettes and blend it so that it works better. Then I instructed it to add the uniform borders and slight gradients around the panels to help separate them without making the design look too fragmented. Here is the original and the updated one. See the problems?