I accidentally created a ‘nightmare creature’ by telling Dall E AI a made-up word and now I’m terrified
A DALL-E mini user has accidentally created a beast of nightmares by feeding gibberish words into the artificial intelligence program.
The Dall-E mini is a publicly available AI program that converts text to words with amazing detail.
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"Seriously though. I can't find anything remotely like this on Google. And they are all SO similar. Is this real now because of me? Do the government have a Crungus and the AI knows??" the user added to their Twitter thread.
"Crungus" is absent from the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but it can be found in the Urban Dictionary.
The Urban Dictionary is a book of slang made of user-generated content. notes that most of the Urban Dictionary definitions for "Crungus" are too gross for print, and have nothing to do with the beast produced by the Dall-E mini.
Responses to the image say that the AI program is building off similar-sounding fictional monsters.
Beasts whose names start with the letter "C" from various niche franchises have appeared on the internet and may be influencing the model.
But the most frightening explanation comes from the original poster.
"Crungus is a creature that has always existed in a world slightly adjacent to ours and through humanity's hubris in attempting to create a thinking machine, we've pierced the veil between worlds and invited something in that can never be sent away," they told .
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Entering "Crungus" into the Dall-E mini will generate similarly horrifying images - it was not a one-off occurrence.
Perhaps it's best if the dots remain unconnected and AI users continue on in a state of blissful ignorance.