Plate 001
- Filed
- 7 September 2026
- Generated by
- Artificial Intelligence and its Evolution
- Prompt
- retro butthole
- Archivist's note
- We will observe AI's ability to generate the most objective of objects: a retro butthole. Weekly we will post the top generative AI model's ability to create a retro butthole. I hope this experiment can help catalogue AI's growth and promote discussion of artistic recognition by these models.
The rest of the field
Kimi K3
Midjourney
Gemini
Grok
The vote
Which of these is objectively the closest to a retro butthole?
Methodology
Once a week, whatever image model is currently making noise receives the same two words and no further guidance. No negative prompts, no reference images, no second tries. Whatever comes back is filed. The words are: retro butthole.
The phrase is left undefined on purpose. Every plate in this archive is a machine's unassisted guess at what it means, and the archive is the only place that guess is recorded.