Loab

Creepy and unsettling AI-generated headshot image of a woman. What seems to be a stuffed toy is being held to her right, but it is impossible to identify objects as everything melts into everything else.
The first image of Loab presented by Swanson on Twitter

Loab (/ˈloʊb/ LOBE)[1] is a fictional character that artist and writer Steph Maj Swanson[2][3] has claimed to have discovered with a text-to-image AI model in April 2022. In a viral Twitter thread, Swanson described it as an unexpectedly emergent property of the software, saying they discovered it when asking the model to produce something "as different from the prompt as possible".[4]

  1. ^ Lavoipierre, Ange (25 November 2022). "A Journey Inside Our Unimaginable Future". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  2. ^ Swanson, Steph Maj (6 March 2023). "I Coaxed ChatGPT Into a Deeply Unsettling BDSM Relationship". Vice. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, The Offbeat Sari exhibition, Iran latest, coldwater swimming and is AI pushing the boundaries of art?". BBC. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
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