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AI Art Becoming Yellow refers to the notion that AI-generated art often tends to have a yellowish tint or hue to it. This tendency was reported online in March 2025, with the bias becoming a viral subject of discussions, debates and jokes in May of that year. Tools meant to remove the yellow tint from AI-generated images, including Yellowtint and UnYellowGPT, were developed and made available as the notion went viral in mid-2025.

Origin

In late March and early April 2025, several posts mentioning the tendency of artificial intelligence image generation models such as DALL-E, Midjourney and, particularly, ChatGPT to produce images that are noticeably yellow-tinted were shared in AI-themed subreddits such as /r/ChatGPTPro and /r/ChatGPT.

For example, on March 28th, Redditor post-death_wave_core posted an AI-generated comic about AI art "always having a yellow tint" in the /r/ChatGPT^[1] subreddit, receiving minimal engagement. On March 29th, 2025, Redditor dcm3001 made a post highlighting the issue in the /r/ChatGPTPro^[2] subreddit (shown below), garnering over 30 upvotes and 50 comments.

As of May 2025, no extensive research into the issue had yet been performed, however, some users suggested that the anomaly might be caused by a training data bias resulting from AI learning to mimic the aesthetic of warm color tones of professional photography and digital art, and photographs taken during "golden hour," in particular.^[3] Old artworks, aged photographs and sepia had been mentioned as possible contributing factors.^[4]

In 2024, a report saying that AI-generated images had a bias for a combination of orange-and-teal color scheme was published by Flitto DataLab.^[5]

Spread

On April 29th, 2025, X^[6] user @SwampCommunist made a comment about an AI-generated artwork referencing the 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla meme having a distinctive yellow tint to it, surmising that it might have been caused by the recent popularity of Studio Ghibli AI Images. The post (shown below) received over 2,700 reposts and 91,000 likes in one month.

On May 17th, 2025, X^[7] user @gnostic_bf quoted another explicitly yellowish AI-generated meme, commenting, "Why are AI images getting more and more yellow?" The post (shown below) garnered over 8,800 reposts and 274,000 likes in 10 days.

In the following week, the notion went viral on X / Twitter, with multiple posts about AI-generated art having a distinct yellow tint going viral in late May 2025.

For example, on May 24th, 2025, X^[8] user @that_bloxer shared a post that received over 7,800 reposts and 290,000 likes in four days.

Anti-Yellow Tint Tools

On April 13th, 2025, Redditor ContributionLiving97 posted a link to the site Yellowtint.art,^[9] a freeware tool for removing the yellow tint from AI-generated art.

On May 22nd, 2025, Redditor Loose-Anywhere-9872 launched UnYellowGPT,^[10] a freemium tool for removing the yellow tint.

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Piss Filter

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