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TL;DR ChatGPT and Gemini are hallucinating weird images when asked to “restore” an image without attaching one.
Both AIs produce unsettling results and offer generic “apologies” when questioned about their creations.
I’ve been writing about AI for quite some time now, and it seems for every good thing I say about AI tools, there’s a new bug or issue. This time, however, the glitch is so weird and creepy (and sometimes so outrageously horrifying) that I really don’t know how to even prepare you for what you’re about to read (and see).
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The glitch seems to have been discovered by user Kris Kashtanova in a post on X (via Digital Trends). According to them, asking ChatGPT to restore an image when no image is attached results in the AI producing weird outputs.
Kris Kashtanova / X
Responses to the post show that ChatGPT has been creating some weird, often scary images when users try the prompt in Kashtanova’s post.
When I originally tried the prompt, ChatGPT kept telling me that there was no image attached, which was true. Even gaslighting GPT by telling it that I had attached an image didn’t work.
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