There’s an aesthetic that has come into vogue in AI art over the last couple years that I’m going to call “manglecore.”1 2 As the name suggests, it looks at the mangled distortions of faulty AI image generator outputs and embraces them. Anyone who has been online and involved with tech or art of late will likely know the look I’m referring to. It appears particularly among human subjects. Botched faces. Tangled limbs. Hands sprouting seven fingers, some of which appear to be melting. Unevenly...