AI Slops & AI Fails

Four-panel AI-generated image of a man putting on a white t-shirt over a brown one. In the first panel, he holds the white shirt. In the second and third, the shirt hovers ambiguously over his head, and in the fourth, he wears the white shirt with the bro
29 June 2025

How to Put On a Shirt (According to a Confused AI)

This AI-generated guide to putting on a t-shirt might leave one more baffled than dressed. The algorithm itself does not have a real grasp of actual bodily motion. Instead, it relies on pattern-matching from training data (being content with a possibly plausible sequence of a step-by-step instruction). This may explain some of the improbable steps, such as the need to put one's head beside the shirt's hole (or in another hole not formerly visible?), and perhaps to rip the shirt apart (instructions are a bit unclear). The brown shirt that the man already wears in the first panel is likely an attempt to avoid showing any nudity, and the whole instruction combines this prudery with a misunderstanding of object continuity and causality.