AIs are repeatedly producing macabre images of strange characters that have been named Crungus and Loab – but there’s a rational explanation for these mythical beings
at the University of Birmingham, UK, says Crungus is merely a composite of data that Craiyon has seen. “I think we could say that it’s producing things which are original,” he says. “But they are based on previous examples. It could be just a blended image that’s come from multiple sources. And it looks very scary, right?”, who generated Loab and asked to remain anonymous, toldthat Loab was a result of time spent trawling the outputs of an unnamed AI for quirky results.
Loab was created with a “negatively weighted prompt”, which unlike a normal prompt, is an instruction to the AI to create an image that is conceptually as far away from the input as possible. The result of these negative inputs can be unpredictable. “Text prompts usually lead to a very wide set of outputs and greater flexibility,” says Aitken. “It may be that when a negative prompt is used, the resulting images are more constrained. So one theory is that negative prompts could be more likely to repeat certain images or aspects of them, and that may explain why Loab appears so persistent.
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