""felt like magic""
""started to distort my body perception and overstimulate my brain in ways that were genuinely harmful to my mental health.""
""Seeing AI images like this over and over again rewired my sense of normal,""
""When I'd look at my real reflection, I'd see something that needed correction.""
A head of user experience at an AI image generator startup spent upward of nine hours daily prompting early 2023-era generative systems. Early outputs often appeared mangled yet produced an initial sense of wonder that later became manic. Repeated exposure to flawed and then idealized images distorted body perception and overstimulated the brain in harmful ways. Improved outputs replaced anatomical errors with impossibly slim, beautiful figures, shifting perceived norms. Experimenting with AI-created fashion-model versions of oneself fueled obsession with becoming skinnier and achieving perfect skin. The workflow became sleep-disrupting and habit-forming as each image delivered small dopamine bursts.
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