Source Confirmed Photos of Satanic Statues at Hobby Lobby Were AI Generated
By Movieguide® Contributor
A viral Facebook post showed various pictures of black-horned satanic statues on the shelves of Hobby Lobby. The creator of the Facebook account wrote, “What’s going on in the Hobby Lobby?”
However, the pictures quickly turned into a lesson of not believing everything you see online. The creator of the post confirmed the images were generated by artificial intelligence.
Originally, the photos were shared to a group on Facebook called “AI Art Universe” by a user named Jennifer Vinyard.
In a direct message with USA TODAY Vinyard confirmed the photos were generated with AI.
USA TODAY wrote, “Vinyard told Vice she created the images using an AI image-generating tool called Midjourney and shared them on Reddit, the AI Facebook group and her personal Facebook page.”
USA TODAY added, “No such statues could be found on the Hobby Lobby website, and no legitimate reports of the store selling satanic merchandise could be found.”
Hobby Lobby has made a name for itself because of its Christian merchandise and business principles.
Movieguide® recently reported on Hobby Lobby CEO David Green:
Green said that success came when he kept God at the center of his business ventures and his family.
“I think that what we’re trying to do is… to consider what would God do in everything we do,” Green said. “[J]ust like caring about our people, and not just there to make a dollar no matter how we did it, or what we did, but we really want to make sure that we center our thoughts about other people, and I think that’s what has helped us in our pursuing what God would have us to do.”
… For Green, as he plans to give away ownership of his business, he reiterates God’s sovereignty over the company.
“I think that, that I need to focus on family and to make sure that the business is here to where that it is here 150 years from now, and that’s how come we’ve set up our business to where really it’s a ministry and we really don’t have ownership the way we’ve set it up, but it as a ministry,” Green told Cameron.
