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In Humanity's Collective Unconscious, the Body Is a Bad Dream

WIRED

The first images that I tried to generate from Dall-E Mini were of cartoon characters getting colonoscopies. The website, now called Craiyon, houses an artificial intelligence model that turns any submitted string of text into pictures. I'm a practicing gastroenterologist who identifies as online, but not very, and the viral tweets that introduced me to the model also served as my yardstick for submissions that felt appropriately niche. Those early efforts bore mixed results: Daffy Duck was shown standing atop a stretcher, Porky Pig registered as an actual pig, and Bugs Bunny was inserted directly into a human colon, his gray ears bleeding into its pink folds. I've since defaulted to the curated experience of Twitter accounts like Weird Dall-E Mini Generations, a sort of greatest hits collection culled from Reddit.