The following photos come from stock photo websites, where they're advertised as photos you can use in your personal blog, business website, training course or wherever else you deem fit. Most stock photos are useful and can be a good way to add some interesting photos to whatever you're working on. Other stock photos are a bit too interesting. Sometimes, there's a stock photo that stands out among the rest, because for whatever reason, they make absolutely no sense, and there's no context in which they'd ever need to be used.

We've gathered a few of these today, so that you may theorize on their origins. Who thought this was a good idea? Who made people pose for this? How do they still have a job? Is this part of an equally weird stock photo series? These images are so nonsensical that they look like they were created by a malfunctioning AI, but they're very real. Here are 21 of them.