I created this satirical image, “Good fences make good Shoggoths”, to call attention to some of our disturbing failures around AI. (I say our because they affect us all, not because all of us have comparable causal impact on our situation.)
The “funny, not funny” version
The “maybe will disturb you” version
I wasn’t sure if the first iteration would hit home, so I wanted to make my next iteration worse. It gives me the chills …
Prompts used to generate images
P.S. My original prompt to Gemini was “Can you make a darkly funny meme titled ‘Good fences make good Shoggoths’?”. My follow up was “Now, in the background, subtly, please add one Shoggoth tentacle creeping around the back of the fence and grabbing a baby from the house.”
I created this satirical image, “Good fences make good Shoggoths”, to call attention to some of our disturbing failures around AI. (I say our because they affect us all, not because all of us have comparable causal impact on our situation.)
The “funny, not funny” version
The “maybe will disturb you” version
I wasn’t sure if the first iteration would hit home, so I wanted to make my next iteration worse. It gives me the chills …
Prompts used to generate images
P.S. My original prompt to Gemini was “Can you make a darkly funny meme titled ‘Good fences make good Shoggoths’?”. My follow up was “Now, in the background, subtly, please add one Shoggoth tentacle creeping around the back of the fence and grabbing a baby from the house.”