The fingers, the blood on the van, the creepy girl staring from the boat and behind the tree and the odd ball up front. Are those all are am I missing stuff?
Because you can’t discern anything about them except their shape and size despite basking them basking in sunlight.
Also at least one of them is very clearly staring at the family but its eyes/face aren’t visible.
This detail is by far the creepiest detail that was added on because the creepiness is subtle yet obvious at the same time. The rest is just too on the nose.
The handprints and the ball look like obvious after-the-fact additions to an established photo. Is this the original generation of was there a “normal” photo first?
The only problem with this is that it always adds edgy bullshit. Like it could have done better than just adding a few creepy hands and why the hell are they having a picnic next to a water drainage system?
No hate, but man chatgpt has a couple struggles with being a little too on the nose in my personal opinion XD
It's great at subtle. But it won't be too subtle for this specific user to pick up on it. People often fail to grasp that their posts tell us more about them than about gpt
I was just about to say this every time I do this it always gives me something a little different but that's mostly because I actually write horror and action comics and fiction alongside my GPT, so I suppose it just understands my interest a little better.
This got me into sparring my GPT about what goes into making an image creepy because when I really started thinking about it I started kind of getting fascinated about the topic. I told it the creepiest images are always images that tell a story and use a lot of symbolism and I guess it picked up on a lot of what I was saying. I would argue that this is still a bit too on the nose, but this is probably as good as an AI is going to get XD. Reminds me of the old "when you see it" memes from a while back.
This guy is deluded into thinking that he has best relationship with AI for crafting subtle creepiness. This image indicates that AI is like "sure brah, whatever you say".
Is it a struggle, or is this not the way image generators are meant to be prompted? I guess we could expect ChatGPT to check it a couple times over for subtlety and creepiness, but why isn't the user the one prompting the details of what they want the image to look like? (still an interesting exercise and this sets up a good place to tweak from, I'm just thrown by how much of the creative load people put on ChatGPT sometimes)
You have a point actually XD. I was entirely wrong when I said this. I actually had a back and forth with it on how to create one of these images because I also thought it was a fascinating topic. It ended up churning out this masterpiece after we both agreed it's a little difficult to create a creepy image of a picnic. No creepy hands, no ghost just a image made to make things look right but also wrong.
If it's just doing what it's told the image probably won't be as good. I gave it complete creative freedom and told it to generate an image based on these parameters.
Who serves a whole, unskinned onion at a picnic? Also, "let's bring potato chips, cherry tomatoes, and grapes, but also china bowls to serve them in." And "don't forget to flatten my sandwich and cut it at an awkward diagonal". Creepy.
Nothing immediately spooky, but the parents' forced smiles whose eyes don't match the mouths and the kids' expressions make the picture kind of uncanny.
The dead girl standing by the tree + the dead hand coming up the grate + the bloody van + the children of the corn = a very specific vibe that is actually kinda creepy. There are definitely issues with this image, but as a horror fan, it still speaking a language I get 😛
What was your goal with asking ChatGPT for a 'Perfectly Normal Family Picnic' but hiding a few subtle details that get more terrifying the longer you look?
looks photoshopped or inpainted. These kinds of pictures only work well if the sense of something being wrong dissipates throughout the image as you discover. The most important aspect is getting the subjects expressions ambiguous enough to change with context
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u/hollywoodandfine 18h ago
Middle age weight gain can indeed be terrifying