AI Artwork Gallery: Steve Jobs in the iNferno

Steve Jobs Tortured in the Eighth Circle of Hell by Gustave Doré

A not-so-divine comedy

Steve Jobs Tortured in the Eighth Circle of Hell by Gustave Doré
Who says Apple products don't get infected with viruses?

As we get closer to the hellish night that is Halloween, we summon once again the satanic cyber-demon called Midjourney with an incantation that will channel the spirit of Gustave Doré to guide the conjuring of images of Steve Jobs, the patriarchal prophet of the iCult, being tortured in the 8th Circle of Dante’s Inferno. The will of the Machine of Mephistopheles be done. So mote it be.

Steve Jobs Tortured in the Eighth Circle of Hell by Gustave Doré
Steve Jobs Tortured in the Eighth Circle of Hell by Gustave Doré
Somebody is having trouble with his iPhone again.

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Steve Jobs Tortured in the Eighth Circle of Hell by Gustave Doré
Jobs surrounded by his adoring demonic minions

What do you think? Do you think these AI-conjured images reflect what Hell is like in your twisted mind? Does Steve Jobs belong in the Inferno, Purgatorio, or Paradiso? In the codex below, inscribe the mortal testimony of your immortal soul in blood.

Steve Jobs Tortured in the Eighth Circle of Hell by Gustave Doré
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AI Artwork Gallery: Wacky Wolvertoons – Menacing Mad Monsters #1

Wacky Wolvertoons: Menacing Monsters

A Spooky Season Special

Wacky Wolvertoons: Menacing Monsters
Midjourney's Mad Monster Party

As Halloween approaches, less than a month away, let us summon the Midjourney AI artwork bot‘s witchcraft to conjure us some spooky, creepy, scary, surreal, disturbing, and fun monster images, all in the style of the late great Basil Wolverton. What mysterious images shall it leap from its computerized demonic brain? Come on, gang! Let’s investigate!

Wacky Wolvertoons: Menacing Monsters
We've got some spooky artwork for you to sink your fangs into in the pits below.

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Wacky Wolvertoons: Menacing Monsters
…And so, our first Mad Monster Party ends with screams of terror!

That’s our first installment of Menacing Mad Monsters. More Wacky Wolvertoons are on their way to these pages. Keep an evil eye out for them!

Wacky Wolvertoons: Menacing Monsters
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Did the above images give you the creeps? Do you feel that your soul needs saving now from the eternal damnation of being tormented by horrific freakish monsters? Do AI art bots have more twisted imaginations than human artists? Inscribe your incantation in blood, below.

AI Artwork Gallery: The Void Necromancer “by Kelly Freas”

The Void-Walking Necromancer

If I could hire a late great master to do creepy illustrations…

Today’s AI art gallery is a collection of images of a necromancer in a void that were generated by the Midjourney art bot. The bot was asked to render these images in the style of renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator Frank Kelly Freas. Let’s see what the bot came up with.

If you have any comments or questions about the images above, the bot’s generation and rendering of them, or anything else to do with AI art, please feel free to leave them below.

Until next time, see you in your nightmares.

AI artwork: Babe Ruth; gluttonous, obese, mutated, and sometimes black

The Ghost of Babe Ruth Eating a Hot Dog

The Midjourney bot takes on the Sultan of Swat

In honor of Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees hitting his 60th home run of the 2022 Major League Baseball season, tying the mark first set by legendary Hall of Famer Babe Ruth in 1927, I decided to call on the Midjourney AI artwork bot to create images of Ruth’s ghost sitting in the dugout and eating a hot dog—something he was known to do often—while watching Judge hit that 60th homer. The results where not exactly what I expected. In fact, they where anything but. Many of them were just downright weird.

I ended up making a shit-ton of these images, with many variations, trying achieve a desired result. I didn’t exactly get it. For one thing, the first batch of images only included Ruth without Judge. Perhaps the bot’s database includes many more reference images of Ruth, an iconic figure whose big league career spanned two decades, whose legacy has existed for many decades after that, and whose fame transcended sports, than it does for Judge, who is a currently active player whose has been playing in the bigs for only about a half-dozen years, and probably isn’t nearly as well known yet outside of sports. For another, even after rewording the prompt a couple of times, the bot was very finicky on when to include Judge—and often times, it didn’t look much like him.

The Ghost of Babe Ruth Eating a Hot Dog
Who is this supposed to be?

Of course, the bot didn’t always give the best likeness of Ruth, either. Often times, it just gave me a generic fat guy wearing a baseball uniform. In fact, the bot had difficulty getting the uniforms right—or getting the right uniform number for either player.

Some of these images are downright bizarre. The Babe is often shown as being morbidly obese and a total glutton. He’s also shown as a downright deformed mutant in many of the images. (This seems to be a tendency with the bot when rendering human figures.) The bot even decided to race-swap Ruth in some of the images, making him look black—which was kind of amusing. What was disturbing were the images of Ruth with two heads, and Judge being depicted as some sort of nightmarish humanoid creature from the darkest depths of Mordor.

The Ghost of Babe Ruth Visits Aaron Judge
The bot must have found that old photo of the Babe wearing a fake beard at a House of David exhibition game.

See for yourself, folks. Below are all the images the bot yielded for me. I apologize for the glut of them, but for the sake of completeness, I decided to include all of them; the good, the bad, and the butt-ugly. Enjoy—if that’s possible.

The Ghost of Babe Ruth Eating a Hot Dog
The ghost of Babe Ruth sitting in the New York Yankees dugout…
The Ghost of Babe Ruth Visits Aaron Judge
The ghost of Babe Ruth visits Aaron Judge in a dream
Aaron Judge Meets the Ghost of Babe Ruth
Aaron Judge meets the ghost of Babe Ruth in his dream

The ghost of Babe Ruth sitting in the New York Yankees dugout eating a hot dog while watching Aaron Judge hit his 60th home run of the season