Maybe the reason we find AI visualizations of ourselves so off-putting is because it accurately illustrates the imagery we perceive ourselves as in our dreams

Hear me out:

We can all probably all agree that oftentimes, it already looks like something straight out of a fever dream, right? And our subconscious being as efficient as it is- doesn’t care to determine the minutiae of things like… the number of fingers a person has, or whether or not their limbs behave appropriately according to locked-down physics.

So maybe it’s that we find it so off-putting because we recognize it, but not from where, and this is bad because unfamiliar familiarity triggers discomfort.