Image Recognition
AI image generation relies on the assembly and analysis of millions upon millions of tagged images; that is, images that come with some kind of description of their content already attached. The weirdness of AI image generation exists in the output as well as the input. It is these regions that an AI image generator will draw on most heavily when creating its pictures. AI image generators, in their attempt to understand and replicate the entirety of human visual culture, seem to have recreated our darkest fears as well. This matters, because AI image generators will do what all previous technologies have done, but they will also go further.