Our Twitter feeds, once needlessly punctuated by those ubiquitous green and black tiled Wordle scores, have gradually been replaced by something altogether more terrifying: the fevered results of an AI image generator.
Thanks – if that's the right word – to the algorithm wizards at Hugging Face, "DALL·E mini is an AI model that generates images from any prompt you give". The app has gone viral, prompting social media to be flooded with images taken from its users' wildest dreams, but resulting in the stuff of sweaty, hallucinatory nightmares. This is what happens when you let technology get out of control, basically.
So, in the name of fearless investigative journalism, we gave the app a number of innocuous scenarios featuring some of our favourite metal icons. We even went out of our way to make these imagined situations as harmless as possible. Korn hanging out in a field of corn? How quaint! Babymetal doing a spot of wholesome reading? What could possibly go wrong? Slipknot eating ice creams? Surely that'd be funny, at least! Sadly, things went slightly awry.
We actually tried a longer list of candidates, too, but the resulting images were either confusing or simply too disturbing for the human brain to handle. But, we felt it important to present the results that did make the grade, regardless of the consequences. With that in mind, here's everything we ended up with.
The following images the DALL·E app coughed up were interesting, if glitchy, abstract nightmares appeal to your better nature.
Sleep well.
1. Korn in a cornfield
2. Lzzy Hale having a BBQ
3. Dani Filth buying vegetables
4. Gene Simmons drinking milk
5. Babymetal reading a book
6. Slipknot eating ice cream
7. Rob Halford petting a cat
8. System of a Down shouting at noodles
9. Glenn Danzig on a beach
10. Fred Durst on a rollercoaster
