Speaker 2
No, I think that's awesome. And we're definitely going to get that book. That sounds, that sounds wonderful. Yeah, it's funny. I wish I could remember the term, but I was reading something recently where someone had coined a term that specifically connoted feeling comfort through fear. There's apparently there's like a recreational fear lab at the University of our hosts or something in Denmark and they study how in some senses like the, you know, which is funny with what you were talking about earlier of like, you know, being able to have like an appropriate physiological response to being being confronted with unusual information. A lot of people actually seek out horror as cope, right, as kind of like a coping mechanism, which reminds me, I mean, did you follow the lobe story?
Speaker 1
No, what is that? It's actually
Speaker 2
a future, future guest of the podcast. But basically when I think it was like a VQGAN trick, but you know, all of a sudden, Twitter was becoming increasingly flooded with this AI imagery, right, which immediately, I mean, now I would argue to the point of banality, but initially came across as very, very strange, right? You type into a machine and an image comes out. And people weren't, you know, you had, of course, like on the one side, I probably bought into this a bit too much, like people, you know, losing their minds of the implications of this on the other side, the inevitable tech clash. But then a meme kind of emerged where there's an artist and developer called Superclider who discovered through negative prompting that basically an odd figure would appear regularly.
Speaker 1
So yeah, I remember seeing this. Yes.
