thumb|The first image of Loab presented by Swanson on Twitter|alt=Creepy and unsettling AI-generated headshot image of a woman. What seems to be a stuffed toy is being held to her right, but it is impossible to identify objects as everything melts into everything else.
thumb|The first image of Loab presented by Swanson on Twitter|alt=Creepy and unsettling AI-generated headshot image of a woman. What seems to be a stuffed toy is being held to her right, but it is impossible to identify objects as everything melts into everything else.
Loab ( ) is a fictional character that artist and writer Steph Maj Swanson claimed to have discovered with a text-to-image AI model in April 2022. In a viral Twitter thread, Swanson described the images of Loab as an unexpectedly emergent property of the software, saying they discovered them when asking the model to produce something "as different from the prompt as possible".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).