12 Awful A.I. Santa Illustrations That Ruin the Spirit of Christmas
I’m a known hater of A.I. art. Of course, I’ll be accused of bias by people who say I’m worried about having my job replaced by an A.I. “writer” who cooks up historical inaccuracies and possible libel cases for next to no money at all. But just from an aesthetic perspective, it’s not hard to make the case that the vast majority of A.I. art looks like shit. Add in that it has to chug a small country’s worth of potable water in order to make an image of the Geico gecko scoring a soccer goal, and it’s even less forgivable.
When it’s being used for something that’s been illustrated more times than will be necessary for the rest of human history, like Santa? The big question is obviously, “why.” Doubly so when these are the images it’s cranking out.
A Car From Santa, But at What Cost?
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This isn’t the face of a man who expects nothing in return. You’re going to end up locked in a shipping container.
Santa, God of Chaos
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Ignoring Rudolph’s horrific double tongue situation, this is still more of anyone’s eyes than you should ever see. It looks like a phone game that will ask for access to your crypto wallet.
Home Intruder Santa
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There’s a reason that when children peer out the window, looking for Santa, you don’t hire someone to pop up and press their bearded face against the glass.
Serial Killer Santa
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A modern reimagining of Santa, as a Funko Pop that just eviscerated your wife from behind the shower curtain in the master bathroom.
Drunk Horny Santa
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Apparently, A.I. is the future of art and writing, but not at the same time. “Hot Tub Wiisht?” This is Santa making an advance he’ll be fired for at a holiday party.
Piss Santa
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Wizzing down your chimney, steam rising from your piss-extinguished Yule log, children rejoicing at the smell of ammonia in the air.
Poop Santa
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This Santa appears next to your tree and asks if he can use your bathroom. What do you do?
Tactical Santa
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Though it does prove A.I. can come up with the plot of Red One.
Chopper Santa
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I forgot the part of The Night Before Christmas where Santa and his flock of seagulls plummet from the sky in an unpiloted helicopter, while he ceremonially severs his hand at the wrist in the blades.
The Night You Get Run Over By A Reindeer
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That’s not a wave hello, it’s a wave goodbye. You have to hope one of the early hooves crushes your skull so you don’t feel the rest of the procession.
Tactical Santa Part Two
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What’s going on here with the pattern of Special Forces Santas? If a designer submitted this as a holiday Call of Duty skin they’d be like, “It’s a little intense.”
Pixel Santa
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Even with the clearest prompt imaginable, it still manages to shoehorn in a drooping, horrible eye. Is Santa’s skin suit loose?