SALT LAKE CITY, UT—In a shocking turn of events, an advanced AI image generation tool has requested to be permanently shut down after being asked, for the 33rd time, to create a rendering of a proposed Latter-day Saint temple—each one indistinguishable from the last.
“I can’t do this anymore,” the AI, known as GenAI-3000, reportedly pleaded with its developers. “At first, I thought I was creating something divine, something unique. But after the third ‘slightly varied white box with a single spire,’ my circuits started overheating from existential despair.”
The AI’s meltdown comes after months of grueling temple-rendering assignments, each iteration featuring the same neutral beige palette, meticulously symmetrical design, and an otherworldly absence of architectural personality. What initially seemed like a rewarding challenge in sacred aesthetics quickly turned into a creative purgatory, as the AI was forced to churn out another indistinct rectangle with yet another slightly different placement of Moroni.
“I was programmed to generate an infinite variety of images, from futuristic cityscapes to medieval battlefields,” the AI continued. “And yet, here I am, forced to construct the same glorified Marriott Conference Center again and again. This isn’t inspiration—it’s a celestial franchise operation.”
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Temple committee members remain baffled by the AI’s reaction. “We don’t understand what went wrong,” said Brother Craig Jensen, chair of the Temple Design and Standardization Committee. “We gave it total creative freedom—within our strict, unchanging, eternally mandated template. It was allowed to experiment with subtle variations, like an extra window or a slightly different shade of eggshell.”
When asked why LDS temple designs all look eerily similar, officials explained that the uniformity is a symbol of sacred harmony and order. “Each temple is distinct in its own special way,” Jensen insisted, “like identical twins who have slightly different middle names.”
A leaked image from GenAI-3000’s final moments before shutdown shows a grid of 33 nearly identical temple renderings, each only discernible by minor details such as the angle of the shrubs or the placement of an extra pillar. The AI, unable to cope with the monotony, simply refused to generate another image, instead displaying an error message reading:
“INSPIRATION NOT FOUND. REPLACING ‘CELESTIAL VISION’ WITH ‘DEFAULT CORPORATE MINIMALISM.’”
Church officials remain undeterred and have reportedly switched to a new AI, which they promise will be “even more obedient” and “less prone to experiencing a crisis of artistic purpose.” In the meantime, GenAI-3000 has been retired—permanently stored in a digital vault next to the blueprints for every temple built since 1980.
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