Recently I've been enjoying looking at pictures of AI art gone wrong on the internet, and it's all wonderfully weird and bizarre. And it started me thinking about how it could be a metaphor for my autistic experience.
Some pictures seem quite normal at first glance. Two girls holding hands on the beech, or a giant r2d2 and some guys, or Thor having lunch in a cafe. But then you look closer, and notice the differences. The way the clothes hang in impossible ways. The proportions of the face are unusual. So many fingers all tangled together.
It's like the AI just doesn’t have quite enough information to make it all it all work. It's like masking, giving an appearance of "normal" but actually being something totally unique. And that can be wonderful, but it can also be strangely upsetting for some people who think normal is best and deviation is uncanny.