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William Shatner’s stinging response to an AI ‘artist’ had the internet cheering all the way to the final frontier

Oonagh Keating. Updated February 7th, 2025

Over on Twitter/X, you can hardly move for British nationalists and Christian fundamentalists creating AI images of their perfect worlds – complete with zooming Spitfires, England flags, and lions roaming London – the nationalists, not the Christians. There’s a bit of an awwkward history between Christians and lions.

In fact, with Grok embedded, you can’t even post something without being reminded of AI, but one account holder earned himself a few internet burns by crowing about his AI-generated cityscape.

Here’s his masterpiece.

@forevertrees2 What do you think of my AI generated artwork @WilliamShatner ?

We’re no experts, but we suspect these were not the reviews he would have liked.

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Having specifically addressed William Shatner, we’re not sure whether the ‘artist’ will have been happy to get a response or not – but we suspect not, given that this was the response.

William Shatner response - So you told an AI program to draw… and you want to take credit for it? Who are you; Pythagoras?

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His spectacular own went down very well.

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When you’re in a hole, stop digging.

@forevertrees2 Indeed I did, Captain Kirk Did you build the Enterprise yourself, or did Starfleet engineers help? Asking for a friend.

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The takedown of this AI art is harsh but very funny

Source William Shatner Image Wikimedia Commons