I HATE using AI for art. I hate the idea of stealing work from someone who actually needs a paycheck and has the talent to do the artwork, just to give it to someone who created software that almost-kinda works right.
Having said that, I am not rich by any status of measure, so the amount of money I have to spend on art which I’m not capable of doing myself is abysmal. I’ve found several artists locally that I love to support when I can, but while paying them a few hundred to create a book cover I intend to sell is justifiable, that same price for my free content is unmanageable.
Which is how I ended up doing my own graphics and web design, getting me into software I could use for very minimal cost as I set up the things I never thought would be part of an author’s job. AI? It falls into that category, unfortunately. I want to have covers and art for my free content, I just can’t afford to hire a real person to create them, which means if I don’t sell the project, the related images have to be created at AI costs.
Never the writing, though. That’s the one thing I’m good at. Don’t need AI for that.
But the art? Ugh.
I hate that I have to resort to this, so please, join me as I roast the terrible efforts AI went to while trying to create artwork for my free content. Let us revel in its hilarious failures!
Let’s Start with AI’s Attempts at Faces
Mischievous? More like murderous. Eek.
Then there’s this guy with hardcore psychopath vibes.
Okay, is that… hair? Brain matter? Or…?
And the fun game: “Is it Hood, or is it Hair?”
And AI’s legendary tries at Hands
Too many fingers…
Too many fingers…
Not enough fingers…
This hand appears to have taken psychedelics. Or was it you that took the magic mushrooms?
WAY too many fingers… looks almost like one of those digits was stolen from somewhere else, too.
Then we’ve got this adorable little “baby finger” that snuck in somehow to replace a pinkie…
We’ve got mysterious, extra hands that shouldn’t exist…
And hands that… just aren’t quite right.
The Fashion Choices & Body Confusion
People Don’t People Like That
I don’t… I don’t even know where to start. So wrong.
Talk about a backhanded hit.
Maybe his throne is jacked up because his legs float?
Seems like a really inefficient way to run if you ask me.
Here we have a conjoined couple.
This feels like M.C. Escher took a whack at fantasy.
Can someone tell me what’s happening here?
This is how we sword now? It doesn’t seem… comfortable.
And Lastly, AI Gets Inappropriate
Never knew a finger in the mouth could be so… disconcerting.
Quick question, friends. Who TF ordered a Fabio? And where TF is his shirt!?
When I typed in “kneels before the king,” I didn’t mean that kind of kneel…
Krys D. W. Wylie 
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