An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.

The issue is that the mural, which is prominently displayed above the Côte Brasserie restaurant on Kingston upon Thames’ Riverside Walk, a popular stretch lined with local businesses, appears to have been hastily generated by an AI, resulting in horridly disfigured people, animals — and even a snowman.

“This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it’s actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu,” joked journalist Matt Thrower on Bluesky.

“It looks like a refugee camp/Christmas market mashup. I guess the prompt was ‘Reform Christmas nightmare,'” one user wrote. “They didn’t stop the boats… or the mutant dogs and two-headed

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