"The issue is that the mural, which is prominently displayed above the Côte Brasserie restaurant on Kingston upon Thames' Riverside Walk, a popular stretch lined with local businesses, appears to have been hastily generated by an AI, resulting in horridly disfigured people, animals - and even a snowman. 'This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu,' joked journalist Matt Thrower on Bluesky."
"Closeups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed. It's a sign that even holiday decorations are no longer safe from a tidal wave of AI slop - and out-of-date slop, at that: modern image generators have made great strides in coherence and ensuring human figures have the correct number of fingers, leaving us wondering whether the mural was generated with ancient tools."
An enormous mural above the Côte Brasserie on Kingston upon Thames' Riverside Walk depicts a crowded Christmas scene that appears to have been AI-generated. The image shows horridly disfigured people, animals and even a snowman, with closeups revealing distorted faces, extra appendages and bodies merging between species. Observers mocked the scene as a Christmas nightmare, noting mutant dogs and two-headed snowmen. A second nearby mural reportedly bears similar hallmarks. It remains unclear who commissioned the murals or whether the restaurant or local authorities were involved, and inquiries for clarification are pending.
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