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Creative Bloq
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Joe Foley

London's Nightmarish Christmas mural shows what happens when AI replaces designers

Details from an AI-generated Christmas mural that caused controversy in London due to nightmarish distorted images of snowmen, a dog with seagull face and other anomalies .

You would think the roasting that the Coca-Cola Christmas ad received would have taught everyone to steer clear of generative AI when it comes to festive marketing efforts. Yet somehow a London developer saw fit to treat the public to an even more nightmarish piece of AI Christmas art.

It appears that generative AI was used to generate art for a huge Christmas banner over a restaurant at a development in Kingston-upon-Thames in West London. And it seems that nobody gave the resulting hallucination even a cursory glance to check that the result was presentable, leading to many perplexed locals.

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