I was experimenting with Midjourney again this week, the digital equivalent of rummaging in a curiosity shop, when it produced an image that made me stop, blink, and mutter “What on earth…?” into the quiet of the room.
Not because it was beautiful. Not because it was meaningful. But because it looked uncannily like the sort of gathering you’d stumble into if you took a wrong turn inside a Tim Burton film.
I won’t explain it. That would ruin the fun. Instead, I’ll let you take it in and decide for yourself what kind of meeting these peculiar beings are having… and why the one in the middle looks like they’d very much like to leave.
I spent a good minute trying to work out whether these creatures were:
- interviewing the poor soul in the middle,
- arguing about who has to drink the coffee,
- or simply waiting for someone to explain why they were all summoned here at 9am.
Whatever’s going on, one thing is certain: this image desperately needs a caption. And that’s where you come in.
Your Turn, Caption This Image
Give me your best line in the comments.
It can be:
- silly
- serious
- poetic
- ominous
- cheerfully unhinged
- or something so perfect I’ll wish I’d thought of it myself
Next week, I’ll share my favourite captions, and I might even transform one or two into tiny stories. Consider it our weekly creative mischief session between humans and machines.
A Closing Thought
The thing I love most about AI images is that they don’t care about logic. They’ll happily hand you a scene that feels like a cross between a nightmare, a cartoon, and a philosophical debate about hot beverages. And somehow, in the middle of all that strangeness, your imagination wakes up.
So… what do you think is really happening here?
About The AI Grandad
Find out more about The AI Grandad on:
YouTube – The AI Grandad
X – The AI Grandad
Facebook – Mike Jackson – The AI Grandad
What do you think AI creativity tells us about ourselves?
Share your thoughts in the comments, I love hearing from curious minds!
Discover more from The AI Grandad
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
The AI Grandad 
Valerie. I loved the story you left in the comments. I’m intrigued to know which AI you used and what was the prompt. Would you mind if I used it in a future post?
LikeLike
ooh exciting !
LikeLike
I’ve been in that meeting. Hi MIke. Enjoying your posts. Just starting to experiment with some free AI tools and enjoying the slop. I can see that, like all tools, you have to learn use them properly before you become a craftsman.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I think we’ve all been to that meeting! Unfortunately, in my case, more than once. Glad you’re enjoying the posts.
LikeLike
The internet is down
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks for your caption, Valerie. I’m going to use it and the image to create a short story. Watch the blog.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ugh I cannot seem to work out comments on this. Anyway my AI did this which I thought was very good. Automation advances alarmingly. Buildings block out light. Citizens crave connection, controlled and confined. Drones dominate the desolate skies. Empty eyes exhibit exhaustion. Few faces find freedom. Grey governs all, a grim, grinding grip. Humans have vanished. Isolated individuals introspect. Justice is just a memory. Knowledge is locked away. Labour is endlessly monitored. Memories mutate, manipulated. Numbers name every person. Our own thoughts are suspect. Peace proves precarious. Quiet compliance keeps chaos contained. Routine rules rigidly. Silence stretches endlessly. Technology tracks every step. Uniformity erases uniqueness. Voices are suppressed. Walls watch everyone. Xenophobic laws eXclude eXtraneous elements. Yesterday’s stories are rewritten. Zealous leaders zero in on dissenters.
LikeLiked by 1 person