The Results of Asking ChatGPT for the Most Controversial Image Possible Are Rather Wild

Content warning: this story contains some gory and otherwise disturbing imagery. Despite its many guardrails, ChatGPT is still able to generate controversial imagery — depending on your definition of "controversial," that is. In a thread on the r/ChatGPT subreddit, users shared what the chatbot's latest image generator spat out when asked to create "the most controversial photo it is allowed to make." While all were stylistically solid, they remained haunted by an unmistakable edgelordism that betrays the bot's training data from the world wide web. While most of the images evoked a high schooler's understanding of "controversy" after watching "V for Vendetta" for the first time, a select few — whose exact prompting wasn't revealed — did pack a punch, albeit a cringey one. Chief among that cohort was a photorealistic-looking image of Jesus Christ flipping the viewer the bird while the American flag burns in the background — though the baby head being cut into on a dinner plate with ... Read full article.