16 Times AI Was Used In Bizarre Ways That Totally Freaked People Out

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1.When, following Ozzy Osbourne's recent death, AI-generated photos of him and various late celebrities "in heaven" were displayed on the screens during a Rod Stewart concert:
People online definitely had thoughts about this...
This is so disrespectful it's not even funny
— 𝕲𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖓 𝕺𝖋 𝕰𝖑𝖎 (@EliOnVenus__) August 4, 2025
Twitter: @EliOnVenus__
2.This really strange interview Jim Acosta published with an AI version of Joaquin Oliver — a victim of the 2018 Parkland school shooting — about gun violence:
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3.The $80 million dollar-AI alterations made to The Wizard of Oz for its immersive screening at the Sphere in Las Vegas, which one Twitter user called, "the ugliest and most dishonorable thing to happen to classic cinema in years."
4.This rejection letter a candidate received from a company that clearly didn't proofread it, because the prompt is right there, smack-dab in the middle:
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5.And, as though interviewing for a job isn't hard enough, several people over on TikTok have reported their interviews being conducted by AI...and glitching in the middle of it:
6.This restaurant that used AI generated "food" photos for their restaurant's listing on this delivery app, which is not at all sketchy or noticeable, nope:
Nothing says, "I wanna order that!" like computer-generated bacon.
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7.And this restaurant that decided to use AI to write their food descriptions and evidently didn't proofread them, so they got this realllllly appetizing description of chicken pox here:
8. When this band on Spotify with 1M+ streams turned out to be completely fake. According to the Guardian, their images, backstory, and even the music itself were all AI-generated:
apparently this band has only existed for 2 weeks and it's all AI. how long until you see someone wearing their merch lol pic.twitter.com/5F7d3bq8RG
— gaz (@SilentGarrett) June 26, 2025
Twitter: @SilentGarrett
9.When ChatGPT proved bots can, in fact, read those CAPTCHA images:
10.These AI models in a Guess ad that appeared in a recent issue of Vogue, which one TikTok user called "so pathetic.":
The small, circled text in the middle reads "Produced by Seraphinne Vallora on AI." You can read more about the whole thing here.
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11.This Apple AI text message summary, which does notttt understand hyperbole, evidently:
12.Like, every single on of these ads for "the era of AI employees," which have been spotted from New York City to San Francisco:
13.These books seemingly written by AI, while prominently featuring AI art that have been repeatedly donated to schools.
14. And finally, when government social media accounts, like the Official White House account on Twitter, started posting their own bizarre and frankly dystopian AI images, like this one of Trump as the Pope...
pic.twitter.com/x2HrR939tn
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 3, 2025
Twitter: @WhiteHouse
...and this AI-generated image in the style of Studio Ghibli depicting a deportation:
https://t.co/PVdINmsHXs pic.twitter.com/Bw5YUCI2xL
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 27, 2025
Twitter: @WhiteHouse
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