A Twitter thread from @johncoogan compares Google's AI image progress over 10 years. The left panel shows Deep Dream (2015): a surreal, psychedelic image of a dog-like creature. The right panel shows Nano Banana (2025): a photorealistic Mona Lisa. User @jiratickets replies, asking why early AI art looked like a psychedelic trip. Below is a two-panel meme: the left panel is black with barely visible blurs of red, labeled "early earthling vision," and the right shows a blurred, upside-down, mostly monotone, blurry rendition of 'Mona Lisa' with only her face and upper body mostly intact, with giant cartoon Mii eyes for comedic effect, with a generic math overlay also over the eyes, labeled "today." The outskirts of this image have a blurry spider and hat-man. "all things considered, ai is doing pretty good tbh," implying the progress from the psychedelic to the photorealistic mirrors humanity's own visual evolution - which is still actually crazy and we just don't understand it still!
👁️i need my poor meme edit on bsky, too.
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