AI-generated art has flooded the web in the months since image generators became commonplace. On Reddit's /r/weirddalle, AI aficionados share their most twisted creations, aiming to create the weirdest, most surreal images they can. These are ideas that individual people cannot have. Rather, they require an electric and silicon mind rather than a flesh-and-blood one.

As more and more of our most influential meme aesthetics spring from the metal loins of computers rather than from the ingenuity of human beings, AI-generated images become an important part of online visual language. These are pictures that carry a thousand words or more, but spring from a single prompt. Here, gathered together, are some of the most bizarre beasts and dreamings of artificial intelligence.

There is something beautiful, perhaps, that one of the most powerful technologies humans have ever created is getting used to make AI-generated images so fundamentally silly that they can make you fall out of your chair laughing. But then, have we as humans ever done any differently?