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“Jerry Seinfeld’s final standup”

Screenshot: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo)
Screenshot: Shoshana Wodinsky (Gizmodo)

For this one, I nixed the art-inspo because I really just wanted to see how DALL-E would interpret something finite. Telling the algo to dream up something like a fake Seinfeld stand-up set is one thing—hell, there’s plenty for the machine to get trained on—but a “final” set implies something else.

DALL-E seems to understand that, and outfitted Jerry accordingly. His hair is thinning and gray now, and he’s wearing a suit that’s magnitudes more formal than the cheese that he’d sport during his standup sets on the show. The same way that DALL-E did its best to cobble together something couch-like in response to my request for a living room, it’s doing its best to cobble something together resembling a comedy legends’ last moments onstage—and at the very least, he’s smiling.