Artist uses AI to design terrifying, faceless, Bosch-style tarot cards. You okay, hun?

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Welcome to the uncanny valley, where artificial intelligences like Looking Glass take snippets of what we know of this world, and turn them into forms almost recognisable, but with just enough absurdity to make you feel weird inside.

With the help of ai_curio's Looking Glass AI, Swedish musician Supercomposite has been compiling a Twitter thread brimming with surreal tarot card designs, straight from the depraved corners of my nightmares. Like many AI art projects before it, this one continues to enrich the artistic landscape 

As a concept, tarot already skirts the strange occult periphery of our understanding of the world, but somehow it just got stranger (via Futurism). With artists like Supercomposite working with the image-compositing AI to dredge up such gloriously hellish designs as these, it's a wonder there are any horror artists left today.

In this instance, it's taken the well-loved Rider Waite tarot deck, and morphed it into something terrifying; it's as if Heironymous Bosch and Dali themselves approached the AI inside whatever metaphysical non-space this it inhabits to form some kind of surrealistic art cabal.

«I generated 500 of these and I’m not stopping,» says Supercomposite, the morbid curiosity evidently having got the better of her.

The list features cards dubbed things like 'Object Permanence,' which depicts a red-scarfed silhouette lady about to get pickpocketed by some faceless, robed humanoid knelt behind her; 'Length' which is just a super long tree person surrounded by skyscraper size twigs, and my favourite: 'The Panty Flasher'. The latter is exactly that, only there is no top half to the lady whose dress is being wafted up, just some matchstick-like spokes and an off-center skeletal figure with