Caption This AI Image #3 – “Shh… We’ve All Agreed Not to Talk About It”

Welcome to what is now becoming a regular Sunday post. If you want to see what I, or rather AI, did with captions sent in by readers last week and the week before, have a read of, Two Images, Two Captions, Two Stories.

Right, now let’s get back to this week’s image.

I came across this AI-generated image and felt that familiar little chill, the one that says something odd is happening here, and nobody’s explaining it. Everyone looks calm. Reasonable. Well dressed. And yet… they’re all making the same gesture, at the same time, as if rehearsed. Including the robot. Especially the robot.

I won’t tell you what I think is going on. That would spoil the tension. Instead, I’ll leave you with the image and let your imagination do the heavy lifting.

There’s something wonderfully unsettling about the scene. Is this a workplace induction nobody warned us about? A support group for people who’ve seen too much? Or the precise moment humans and machines quietly agree on what not to say?

One thing’s certain: this image is crying out for a caption. And that’s where you come in.

Your Turn, Caption This Image

Drop your best caption in the comments. It can be:

• humorous
• unsettling
• philosophical
• quietly sinister
• or so accurate it makes the rest of us uncomfortable

Next week, I’ll share a few favourites, and I may even turn one into a short piece of flash fiction if the mood takes me.

A Closing Thought

One of the things AI does brilliantly is reflect us back to ourselves, just slightly skewed. This image feels like a mirror held at an awkward angle, familiar enough to recognise, strange enough to unsettle. It makes you wonder not just what the robot knows… but what the humans have already decided to keep quiet about. So… what’s the secret here? And who decided it was best left unspoken?

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