It's official: The coronavirus quarantine may have well and truly made the concept of a "meme" obsolete. For proof, look no further than "This Meme Does Not Exist," a meme-creation tool created by meme-template website Imgflip. At a glance, it looks like your average random assortment of meme templates. They're being created on the spot by a neural network, an artificial intelligence (AI) that predicts what it thinks a meme might look like. You can let the network generate a random meme for you, or you can preselect your meme from one of many popular templates, from Mocking SpongeBob to the Gatsby toast.

Distracted Boyfriend casting his gaze toward carbs. Leonardo DiCaprio suggesting it's time to have a dick. Truly none of these things make sense. Yet as people worldwide are fully in their second month of coronavirus quarantine (or should be), they're all oddly hilarious notions. Perhaps it's stir-craziness, but the images burped out by the AI meme generator--a recently added feature of the site Imgflip--make a random kind of sense.

Why are these AI-generated memes better than any a human being could make? Internet users have used the Imgflip meme generator to create their own memes for the better part of a decade. Now, the site is generating its own memes, using the help of artificial intelligence. Harkening back to AI-generated feet pictures and AI-generated faces, the site This Meme Does Not Exist matches captions with a selection of popular meme formats. Its creator, Imgflip founder Dylan Wenlau, used his machine learning platform Tensorflow and Keras to generate the captions.