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make me a photo of Dilbert riding on a dog. It was just the first thing that popped in my head. And so it makes this picture but it knew that if a human-sized Dilbert were riding on a dog that would be bad for the dog. So it turned the Dilbert into a little stuffed animal and made it small and put it on a big dog. And I posted it because I thought it was just an interesting picture.

And AI wants to give Dilbert a mouth because everybody in the world except Dilbert has a mouth. Dilbert has no mouth, by the way, if you didn't know that. And no eyeballs. But it wanted to give him eyeballs with some of the AIs and not others. And he had a necktie, but it didn't seem to understand that it would be an upright necktie. So it was definitely Dilbert, but yeah, the AI version.

And then people saw my version and they tried different AIs. So next thing I know, there's more than one Dilbert riding on a dog. And the next thing I know, it starts morphing from Dilbert riding on a dog to me riding on a dog and then Dilbert riding on God's shoulders. And then there was the baby Jesus Dilbert. And then somebody used Midjourney which takes a static picture and turns it into a video and somebody improved the background.

So the picture started as just a little thing I thought was funny and it took on a life of its own and it evolved into all these different directions. And there was even a dog riding Dilbert. But my favorite was a picture of me the AI created of me riding a giant cat, a house cat, but it was a horse-sized cat. And I came away from the experience thinking, "Oh my god, do I want a horse-sized cat? Would that be awesome? One you could put a saddle on and ride." Imagine if you could just say, "Hey," and call your cat,

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and your cat would run over and you just jump on it like a horse and ride around. Okay, maybe it's just me. Well, I wonder if there's any new research that could have been skipped if they had just asked me. Oh, here's something from the University of Bath. Now, you probably didn't know there was a University of Bath, but a lot of people try to take a bath without any education whatsoever, and the…

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