10 books, depicted through AI art.

If you’ve been on Twitter over the past couple of days, you’ve likely seen a lot of random, cool art. Especially if you’re following Brandon Taylor. The source of it all is DALL•E, an “AI model generating images from any prompt!”

…Any prompt you say? Just for fun, I decided to run a few basic plot descriptions of beloved books through the beast to see what came out. Honestly, I was pretty delighted by the results.

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray:

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby:

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man:

Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote:

Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse:

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein:

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis: 

Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections:

Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban:

Everything by Sally Rooney: