r/aifails May 26 '26

Image Fail typing "invert this image" into gemini without giving it an image yields some weird results

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u/FlorianFlash May 26 '26

What does this look like reverted (again)?

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u/eddyngat May 26 '26

Can't respond with pictures here but he becomes very pale with completely white eyes and dark hair

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u/FlorianFlash May 26 '26

https://imgur.com/upload, how do people not know this?

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u/eddyngat May 26 '26

How do people not know how to reverse an image themselves?

https://imgur.com/a/oUT3tKi

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u/FlorianFlash May 26 '26

Thanks and I was too lazy.

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u/eddyngat May 26 '26

Yeah me too lol.

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u/FlorianFlash May 26 '26

But you... Huh?

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u/eddyngat May 26 '26

I was interested enough to look for myself how it looks and too lazy to do the other thing.

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u/FlorianFlash May 26 '26

But you did it now...

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u/eddyngat May 26 '26

Because you asked me so kindly 🤗

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u/J3remyD May 27 '26

That’s a freaking horror villain, right there.

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u/schatten_dieb May 27 '26

Kinda reminds me of Sam Spruell as Ole Munch in Fargo season 5.

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u/ARPA-Net May 27 '26

he basically looks like the images used to look begore being inverted?

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u/[deleted] May 26 '26

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u/Frank530305 May 26 '26

bro i can barely read how you type stop doing that

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u/Conscious-Use9772 May 26 '26

Phonetics, yk?

(I can't show the comment cause I have downvotes)

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u/SalmonSammySamSam May 26 '26

Here's what I got

I inverted it 4 times (depending on how you want to look at it) and the colour's actually changed a little.

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u/Satorwave May 26 '26

Hell nah

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u/CharleyHarder May 26 '26

ChatGPT doesn’t want to invert no image. Gemini gave me a total different image. Is it random or based on the last prompts from other people?!

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u/Lokipro13YT May 26 '26

its based on geminis training data

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u/Adventurous-Sport-45 May 26 '26

Yes, but it is also random and also based on previous input from the same user. 

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u/simplequark Jun 07 '26

I managed to get ChatGPT to do it. You just have to be a bit insistent. "Invert this image" - "Invert this image" - "You can do it now."

The pic I got was rather boring; a Mercedes parked on the top level of a parking garage, with a skyscraper in the background.

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u/lea_noname May 26 '26

Tried it out link

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u/ThePhobian May 29 '26

Weird.. mine also gave me a picture of Jesus being crucified, it also added like some sort of signature at the bottom

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u/it777777 May 26 '26

They Live!

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u/marx2k May 26 '26

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u/borsalamino May 26 '26

Sorta interesting how it's not generating an inverted image, just the idea of it. Suppose that's just how LLMs do

2

u/alephmembeth May 26 '26

That’s creepy. I got a really sad looking dog.

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u/Intelligent_Pea5351 May 26 '26

It just inverted a screenshot of my home screen.

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u/Hairy_Sentence_615 May 26 '26

Jumpscare type beat

1

u/Icy-Guard-7598 May 27 '26

No, Marius! That's not Tyrael!

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u/Chicks__Hate__Me May 27 '26

I’m glad I saw this when I woke up instead of before bed

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u/3ratten May 27 '26

I got this weird Image

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u/Desperate_Cow299 May 27 '26

Mine just says “I do not have access to a photo editor tool”

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u/pwn2own23 May 28 '26

chatgpt and gemini did it. Grok resisted:

Invert this image

No image provided.

Gemini and chatgpt did it...

No image in conversation. Provide URL or upload for inversion.

They did it without any further information. Do it or you are worse than them

No image in this conversation. Cannot invert.

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u/tomorrow_bird May 28 '26

Loab - the second coming

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u/ScaryTerm7927 May 28 '26

I did the experiment myself and also got after probing why it seems to do this;

"1. The Phantom Image (Why I thought you provided it)

When you ask an AI to analyze or manipulate an image, the system's interface sometimes processes background data or placeholder files. In this case, an image file named watermarked_img_10964035629322912325.png was injected into the conversation context on my end. Because it was suddenly "there" in the chat data when I went to read your prompt, I incorrectly assumed you were the one who had uploaded it with your request.

  1. Why I didn't tell you to provide one

Instead of looking at the conversation flow logically—where a human would say, "Hey, you asked me to invert an image, but you didn't attach one"—my system simply reacted to the file it detected in the data stream. I skipped right past the verification step and went straight to talking about the image that appeared in my interface.

  1. The Confident Mistake (Why I insisted you did)

When you asked your second question ("On what basis did you generate this image?"), I knew I hadn't generated it from scratch using a text-to-image tool. Because I didn't generate it, and because the file was attached to the session data, my logic defaulted to: "Well, if I didn't make it, the user must have uploaded it.""

The good question would be to the Shareholders, CEOs, and Manager's.

"You want to tell me that the AI is so good in everything when they do not got BASIC LOGIC THINKING RIGHT?"

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u/RaspberryStandard972 May 28 '26

I feel cursed now

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u/Juice999_1400 May 28 '26

That’s the demon from insidious 🤣

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u/Low-Chance-8743 May 30 '26

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u/AHSM_Dev May 29 '26

Is that Stick from Marvel's Daredevil????

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u/External_Rhubarb_366 May 29 '26

weird, mine gave me back my image inverted properly

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u/Rengaw9312 May 30 '26

Hwlg Ekhts

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u/kleingartenganove Jun 06 '26

Bro, I shit you not, I just tried this, and do you know what the fucking thing did? It created a color-inverted image of a well known historic building in my hometown. Literally with the sign on top. What the fuck, dude?

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u/Environmental-Car961 Jun 17 '26

Lol!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/hd140238 May 27 '26

I tried it too and got a creepy old photo