AI Slops & AI Fails

A photo-like close-up of a plug in a wall socket, but with extra golden pins of mismatched shapes sticking out at odd angles and additional socket holes, revealing a generative AI glitch.
22 August 2025

Plugged in

Is this a new electrification standard? Or is it rather a mishap produced by generative AI? It does, at first, look like a stunningly realistic image, but in this case, it also reveals how little AI models actually understand. The addition of random golden pins sprouting from the plug and extra holes in the outlet illustrates the limitations of AI models perfectly. The AI doesn't truly know what a plug is for, as it only learns patterns from millions of pictures and then improvises. The result is, like often, an "almost right" image.