Some AI images i generated in 2021
In 2021, this Reddit user's AI prompts yielded barely recognizable blobs — look at it now.
Deep Dive
A Reddit post by user /u/Then-Shoe8373 shared three image prompts from 2021: "Artificial intelligence taking control of the world," "Roni," and "A man in a dystopian cyberpunk city." The user remarked, "Couldn't imagine how fast it would improve."
Key Points
- 2021 AI image generation (VQGAN+CLIP) produced low-resolution, incoherent results from simple prompts like 'AI taking over the world'.
- Modern models (Midjourney v6, DALL-E 3) achieve photorealistic, compositionally sound images from the same prompts.
- The speed of improvement—from 2021 to 2024—compressed years of visual AI development into a span most users experienced in real time.
Why It Matters
Shows how rapidly generative AI matured, reshaping creative industries and lowering the barrier to professional visual content.