Dystopian architectural futures as authored by Midjourney, from the prompt "The future of architecture" by academic and photographer, Adam Brown.

I was somewhat horrified that such a simple unadorned request of an AI could produce image after image of crumbling cityscapes and barren wastelands. Each variation rendered in deep reds and oranges with hot hazy disappearing horizon lines of infinite destruction. In the centre of the image rose a shiny abstract tower, all glass and steel and aqua blue accents, impossible architectural forms that reached pleasingly into the temperate cooling air of the stratosphere.

There will always be inequality, the algorithm was telling me. Winners and losers, air-con and keystrokes. The Cloudalists above and the Earth hardened data clones toiling away in the sun below.

Technical details :: Over 50 sequential images taken from the series were blended together using RunwayML’s frame interpolation technology. On the Midjourney side, no stylistic or technical parameters were used in the prompt.