[ziroshima]

I've noticed that AI-generated images give me a weird, 'skin crawling' sensation. Somewhat similar to nails on a chalkboard. Does anyone else experience this?

[handrous]

Malfunctioning pattern-matching is a hallmark of mental illness, so it makes sense than any but a nearly-perfect "AI" system would often produce work that's creepy or off-putting, for that reason.

[rendall]

I know what you mean. There is a disturbing uncanny valley, filled with centipedes and Elder Ones

[satori99]

I just spent an hour or so playing with the notebooks at the end of the article, and it's pretty much all nightmare fuel

https://imgur.com/a/kUDgbsH

[lurquer]

That second one... was ‘Cthulhu’ a keyword?

[satori99]

It was "An octopus walking down a street"

[heavyset_go]

They remind me of Alvin Schwartz illustrations[1] but made in Photoshop.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=alvin+schwartz&hs=uPB&source...

[xtiansimon]

What’s creepy about AI images I believe can be traced to the inputs. Give an AI images of people and it doesn’t have the same sensitivity to its own existence to preempt what we meat puppets find shocking and gross.

[voldacar]

Yeah I know what you mean. I think "Lovecraftian nausea" is the best way of describing it