Cer­tain­ly not artificial—yet dis­tinct­ly humanoid. There are some gen­uine­ly inter­est­ing trends, along­side a num­ber of rather clichéd visualizations—many of which can be found on this very web­site.

A glance at the Night­Café home­page reveals hun­dreds of high­ly pol­ished, yet often for­mu­la­ic images. It rais­es an inter­est­ing ques­tion: is this aes­thet­ic dri­ven by the machine, or by human pref­er­ences? Why does so much of it appear glit­ter­ing, mag­i­cal, cute, over­sized, sentimental—and, at times, almost exces­sive­ly cozy?