The strange and ever-changing “Erosion Bird” meme taps into the uncanniness and inconsistency of artificial intelligence.
Aidan Walker
Aidan Walker is a writer and researcher from Virginia. His work has appeared in Know Your Meme, the Daily Beast, and in the Fotomuseum Winterkuhr’s Screen Walks program. While studying at Columbia University, he wrote the first full-length academic monograph on the Distracted Boyfriend meme.
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