Town Uses AI to Create Christmas Mural, Accidentally Generates Boschian Horror

Celebrate the holiday season with nightmares beyond your comprehension!

By Braden Bjella

Published 2 months ago in Funny

The holiday season is on its way — a time when towns around the world gather together, cover their neighborhoods in flashing lights, and encourage holiday cheer. One of the ways that a town can do this is by commissioning a themed mural from a local artist. But, if they can’t be bothered to pay someone with talent, they can also just get AI to do it … right?


Well, maybe not. A London suburb has attracted controversy after revealing a new, Christmas-themed mural. However, the mural was clearly generated by AI and, as a result, is a horror show that evokes more “sick” than Saint Nick.


How do we know it’s AI? First, it’s bad. Second, as noted by ArtNet, the piece lacks “any clear governing logic.”



“The disturbing scene appeared to contain large troops of men with misshapen bodies and contorted faces attempting to skate over shallow, foamy waters,” writes author Jo Lawson-Tancred. “Elsewhere, groups filled an infeasibly large wooden boat. Heavily-disfigured dogs bounded about, some appearing to transmogrify into birds. In the background, wooden huts suggestive of a Christmas market were partially engulfed in flames.”


Given that this is the art world, there’s always a chance that this nightmare was intentional. There are rumors that the mural was made by Mat Collishaw, a well-known art world provocateur who has recently been experimenting with artificial intelligence.


Regardless, people hated the thing — and just as soon as the piece was put up, it was permanently removed. Let’s keep it that way.

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