Artificial intelligence applied to image generation is experiencing a boom and several companies such as Google and Meta have not been excluded. An independent research lab used its own artificial intelligence tool called MidJourney. And it created images of the end of the world based on the request of some users.

In AI, users can ask a bot for an image under a premise or phrase, which unleashes people’s creativity and the results are of all kinds.

Upon request, the results were terrifying: cities on fire, weapons of mass destruction, disfigured faces and in general no life behind the main characters, who are nothing but corpses.

This technology works under the supervision of an independent research laboratory, so the results often go beyond what such a situation would be in reality, so everything is more in the viewer’s imagination.

For now, MidJourney is in beta and any user can request images via Discord and an English description of what they want. The result will be four images in 60 seconds.

The origin of selfies

Robotoverloads is a TikTok user who currently has access to the MidJourney beta and has requested the “end of world selfie” there.

The experiment was overwhelming. MidJourney started generating terrifying images. Cities on fire, apparently hit by the devastating effect of some sort of attack with weapons of mass destruction, disfigured faces whose damaging effect prevents us from deciphering the depth of facial expressions.

There are also other images showing people photographed with the planet Earth on their backs. It is not clear where they are. Robotoverloads also used AI to generate “the last selfie ever taken in the apocalypse”.