Who is the Ghostly Woman Haunting Midjourney?

Midjourney is a delightfully haunted platform. What does that tell us about AI?

The Midjourney ghost, summoned by the prompt “A woman” — Image by Author (via Midjourney)

The first time I noticed her I was running tests to study how text-to-art generators interpret human emotions. I had just finished running a series of emotion prompts on Dall-E and wanted to see how Midjourney would handle the same.