The calendar is a popular addition to many households, both as a tool for tracking dates and as a simple decor element.

However, when TikTok userMeghanunpacked the one she got for her suburban 3/4-acre homestead in Ohio, the woman noticed something was off.

As she flipped through the pages, Meghan noticed that many of the horses, which were supposed to be the main feature of the publication, were disfigured and contorted.

This woman bought a horse calendar for 2024, but she noticed there was something odd about it

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Image credits:s****y-weather-gardening

More specifically, the horses that ‘posed’ for it

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“They do look pretty fake. If you zoom in, they’re kind of pixelated. So I’m like, ‘yeah, I guess it could be AI, but I’m not really sure.'”

“Look at that horse. It’s pretty idyllic. It almost looks CGI”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“The sand looks kind of weird. Looks kind of fake”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“April. Yeah, like look at those hooves. Those don’t look real, what’s going on at the knee?”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“But then I get to this. To May. Everything looks fine, right? What the hell is this? What? Where are their faces?”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“It’s got like five legs. There’s a leg back there. There’s the leg in the front. And then one leg splits in two. How’d they do this?”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“And then look at this horse’s eye. Oh my god. So this is cursed. And it’s going in the trash. Thank you”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“Look at this cowboy. What’s happening with the hat? Which of those lumps is its chin? Look at the hands?”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“Look at this horse. What is the lump and then its neck is like, blending in with the background?”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“This horse has a strap that goes to nothing”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

“The ferns are creepy blobs. So sad that they didn’t want to pay any photographers and did this. This should not exist”

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Meghan’s video has gone viral

As we can see from Meghan’s story (and, for example, our publicationWhen AI Goes Wrong In The Best Way: 50 Cursed and Hilarious Pictures), artificial intelligence still has its fair share of problems when it comes to creating life-like images. However, when it succeeds, we’re kind of OK with it.

Yet at the same time, and contrary to the traditional idea of “algorithmic aversion,” people expressed no aversion toward AI-generated content when they knew how it was created. When respondents were not told how content was created, they even preferred AI-generated versions of it!

For their study, researchers created two tasks: writing marketing copy for five retail products and drafting persuasive content for five uncontroversial campaigns (such as, “eat less junk food”). They tackled these tasks in four different ways:

Participants in the experiment came in to evaluate the quality of this work and were split into three groups: one group knew nothing about the content creation process, the second group knew about the four different approaches but was told nothing more, and the third group knew which approach was responsible for each piece of content they viewed.

“We wanted to get a fine-grained understanding of the various ways in which humans and AI can collaborate and, from that, get a better sense of what kinds of biases people hold.”

When we’re talking about the images, though, and the ‘models’ are discombobulated, even 99 cents for a calendar doesn’t seem entirely worth it.

People have had many funny and strong reactions to it

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

Woman Thinks She Bought A Simple Horse Calendar, Starts Noticing Odd Things Pop Up

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