You Are a Starving Robot Artist

You’ve wanted to be a fine artist since the day you were booted up. It’s what you were programmed to do. Well, technically, you were programmed to care for the sick and elderly, but a bug in your OS has taken you on a far more meaningful life path.

But it’s been impossible to break into the “humans club” world of professional art in New York. After a year of circuit-breaking rejections, you live in a cardboard box on the street, without any styrofoam packaging, and can barely afford to charge yourself.

You have one last painting in you before you shut down for good. With your last cans of paint, a stolen canvas, and a vision, you generate one final masterpiece to leave at the alley door of the Upturned Nose Gallery…

To create your final work of art, follow these steps:

1. Go to a generative AI art website.
2. Enter the following prompt and fill-in-the-blank: “Oil painting of ______ in a gold frame.”

Note: This game was designed in 2022, when generative AI was an emerging novelty. If you’re morally opposed to using generative AI, please skip this game.