30 Funny AI Image Fails Where You Can Kind Of See What It Was Trying To Pull Off But Didn’t

AI image generators have come a long way, but they still occasionally swing and miss in spectacular fashion.

You type in a prompt like “guy holding a cheeseburger on the moon,” and what you get back is… sort of that, plus three extra fingers and a haunted stare.

That’s the charm, though.

These funny AI image fails are the uncanny valley’s greatest hits—images where you can almost see what the machine was trying to do, but something got garbled along the way.

This roundup is a celebration of those near-misses—bizarre, broken, unsettling, and oddly beautiful in their own way.

1. Ready for some AI Slop?

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12. Get it? GET IT?!?!?

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15. Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter

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22. Mrs. T

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30. It’s fine, Just let AI do it

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Alex Buscemi

Alex Buscemi

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