Why Do AI People Have Extra Fingers?

Bard shares the secret.

A woman with lots of fingers screams joyfully at her Christmas present. Picture by Author Generated by Bing.com Images.

Recently I wrote a story about holiday shopping.

I asked AI for images of happy people receiving gifts.

(Like the one you see at the top of this story.)

That picture is pretty fierce. With all those sharp fingernails, that lady could rip open a box in .001 seconds.

A woman cooking pancakes. Picture by Author Generated by Bing.com Images.

This lady with ten arms whipped up a tall stack of pancakes in no time.

I started wondering why AI gets so creative with human anatomy.

Since AI has explored the Internet for years, why doesn’t it know what people look like?

I asked Bard AI about the extra-fingers phenomenon.

Here’s his explanation.