Visualizing Prose with Midjourney

How does the almighty algorithm capture the written word?

AI models are largely created by scraping the content of the internet and dumping it into a virtual black box. The model sifts through the data, building a web of associations that, by virtue of sheer complexity, imitate intelligence.

This is, of course, done off the back of the actual human contributors to the canon of the internet. Real labor is done …