I recently stumbled across a website called This City Does Not Exist. Every refresh loads an AI-generated aerial image of a city that, indeed, does not exist. As a lover of maps, I enjoy playing with this website, creating stories and histories in my head for these invented landscapes.

Through researching the technology that enabled that website, I found This Word Does Not Exist, a cute tool that lends definitions to made up words and is also fun for an idle moment.

But then I learned about This Person Does Not Exist and all of a sudden realized that I may not be ready for this brave new world of ours.