AI Lunchroom

Just because I was asked to post some more of them, here is a pair of AI images produced as a result of a single "prompt." In this case, I asked the machine to show me pictures of workers in a lunchroom with beer and a red flag behind them. It gave me the beer but the red flag got transformed into uniform work shirts.

The pictures, almost a panoramic diptych, have problems, but our natural pareidolia tends to iron some of them out. Thus I see stories encoded in the image, an image that being AI is essentially nonsense in origin.

But meaning is brought by the viewer, hey?
So the brunet guy in the left picture is seen as someone lovestruck. And the girl at left seems engrossed in some emotion with regard to the man in blue who seems to be considering it.

However, my pareidolia (I don't know about yours) can't do much of anything about that booted leg sticking out from the table in the right picture; it's handy for the front guy to lean on. They all have a kind of heroic style; that's the stereotyping by the AI machine doing that.

The overall colour tone is like a 1965 CocaCola ad, and I suspect that that kind of commercial art (a sort of mid-century American socialist realism) forms a large part of the source imagery being used by the machine here.