“A far-flung fantasy world with rolling hills, mountains, and the imaginings of magical civilization”

I Asked an AI to Paint 100 Fantasy Landscapes. Here’s What Happened.

Better than humans? You decide.

Nick Saraev
Geek Culture
Published in
3 min readJan 3, 2022

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Artificial intelligence is getting good at making art. Like, real good. Most people don’t realize that it’s already significantly better than humans in most respects.

Of course, you probably don’t believe me.

But that’s the thing about AI — it has a funny way of being in your rear view mirror one minute, and then zooming by a hundred million kilometers the next.

I run an artificial intelligence painting startup, and as a demonstration, I asked our resident GPU-turned-artist to generate one hundred fantasy landscapes of far-off worlds. The results are rather incredible.

A cinematic, colorful landscape (oil painting)

Mind-blowing textures. I prompted this with several variations of the word ‘oil texture’, ‘oil painting’, and so on until I arrived at the visibly beautiful & vibrant result you see before you.

A fantasy desert during sunset

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Nick Saraev
Geek Culture

Demystifying cutting-edge AI & tech. Writer for The Cusp. 🌎 nicksaraev.com