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    10 books, depicted through AI art.

    Katie Yee

    July 7, 2022, 12:21pm

    If you’ve been on Twitter over the past couple of days, you’ve likely seen a lot of random, cool art. Especially if you’re following Brandon Taylor. The source of it all is DALL•E, an “AI model generating images from any prompt!”

    Any prompt you say? Just for fun, I decided to run a few basic plot descriptions of beloved books through the beast to see what came out. Honestly, I was pretty delighted by the results.

    Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray:

    AI art

    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby:

    AI art

    Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man:

    AI art

    Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote:

    ai art

    Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse:

    AI art

    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein:

    AI art

    Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

    AI art

    Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections:

    AI art

    Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban:

    AI art

    Everything by Sally Rooney:

    Sally Rooney

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