Kafka as a Girl (Beautiful MetaMorphosis)

Another AI-experiment

Merzmensch
Merzazine
Published in
2 min readSep 7, 2020

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Metamorphosis isn’t just that bad. Sure, Gregor Samsa in Kafka's short story has experienced a real nightmare, after woking up from bad dreams. You remember:

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.

I was just wondering, how would this mesmerizing author with a deep glance in his eyes look like if it turns a girl. Another direction. Not a nightmare anymore. A hope, perhaps? Kitschy Happy End?

Anyways, I used AI-driven Artbreeder, and I’ve got it:

Artificial Intelligence presented a clever looking girl. Calming, bright, inspired, full of thoughts, but probably liberated of all the angst, self-terror, and paranoia. But is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Do authors have to endure mental battles within to create genius works — no matter with which gender or orientation? Probably we need all of them. The self-torturers and optimists, the sarcastic and friendly, with darkness and light in their souls.

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Merzmensch
Merzazine

Futurist. AI-driven Dadaist. Living in Germany, loving Japan, AI, mysteries, books, and stuff. Writing since 2017 about creative use of AI.