First, this is meant to be a light-hearted thread. I don't want to start a debate on the merits of AI descriptions.
That being said, when the stakes are low, inaccurate descriptions can be hilarious. Here are a few of mine:
"A blurry image of a blurry image": Actually just the welcome screen for the Walmart app.
"A smiling blonde haired blonde haired blonde haired blonde haired person smiling and posing for a photo": Really a GIF containing exactly one man.
"A cat sitting on a plate": Really a dog sitting on a baseball field.
What are some of yours?
By Kelly, 20 May, 2026
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Truely decided it was mad when
Told me a person lying on a bed with a dog next to him. When I'd totally blocked the camera expecting it to say can't see anything or totally black. Slightly off then!
Some of mine
Fo context my dog is a poodle and since they look quite like sheep because of their fur... Took a picture and at the time when I took it the dog was in his kennel which is a metal cage, sort of. Anyway, take the photo and seeing AI goes, a sheep in a cage. I cracked up at that. I get the why it described that but funny nonetheless.
A pile of rocks?
I made a braided rug and tried to take a picture of it. The description said it was a blue ribbon lying on a pile of rocks. After I stopped laughing, I decided that it thought the braiding looked like rocks. If you say so.
Bears in the UK
It was with the ring doorbell app through my iPhone, as you have the AI descriptions given to you when it’s locked the notification I received was that a bear was walking past my home which I thought was quite hilarious since we don’t have bears in the UK.
Dogs
A number of years ago, before LLMs, I remember trying some object detection type apps on my sleeping whippet. One told me she was a pigeon, the other an anteater.
A week or two ago, Siri told me that a photo which I assume was my chocolate Labrador and border terrier running around the beech was of an elephant and a calf. Sadly when I tried to find the photo a few days later so I could ask what the photo was really about, Siri had changed its mind. Anyway if there had been an elephant wandering around the beeches of Somerset in the UK then I would have mrs grieves might have mentioned it at the time.
@Saj
Perhaps you have a particularly tall and hairy neighbor? Haha
Several of Mine.
Here are a fwew of mine both from VO and Jaws when testing a university website for accessibility and alt text.
Image may be a demonstration, person posing for a photo, a police officer with a dog on a leesh posing for a photo. These are from my iPhone.
The alt text descriptions Jaws attempts to generate from the internet are a bit more amusing. I was testing a website with images of various faculty for my job. Jaws attempts to state image may contain actor in the fashion show for weekly fashion week, image may contain beauty is in the eyes of the beholder actor, image may contain women smiling person, image may be actor in the film acting. When I heard these I started laughing. :)