playing with AI-backed output generators, text or image = Lacan's Mirror Stage

"look, when I do this, it does that! - it (which is me) there seems so much more together than my experience of me (here) - wow I(t) is impressive! I wish to be its version of me from now on."

#infantilization

@camerontw yes but what’s mirrored is a (chunk of) culture - bigger than the individual but still reassuringly familiar. Dangerously pleasing! Feels fresh for a minute and then it becomes clear you’re rebreathing everyone else’s emissions