I was on a small team of artists who were asked to stress-test OpenAI's DALL-E 3 image model. I learned a lot about AI, but I learned more about myself. In this Hack, I'll explain what I mean and why I think it's time for everyone to try it.

On social media, the daily steamroller of opinions and the evening dump truck of facts have become nearly indistinguishable.

What's worse, both opinions and the news now uncannily resemble advertisements.

There is a lot of noise. It feels like drowning in everyone else's stuff, gradually leaving less and less room to listen to oneself.

By comparison, perusing my own gallery of images in DALL-E (or my dad's works in Midjourney) is a starkly different and fundamentally new category of tapping and scrolling.

This kind of phone-staring leads my attention span inwards, gradually closer and closer to the Self.

If you feel oversaturated by cramming the entire world of images into your head every day, it may be worth inviting some images out of your head and into the world.

Consider illuminating all of them.