A Little Late Night Generative AI
- Katherine Tatsuda

- Apr 4
- 2 min read

So, I’m laying in bed tonight, fully aware I should probably just go to sleep…
and instead, I start messing around with generative AI.
Naturally, I decide what I really need in this moment
is images of myself as an Easter pin-up girl.
Totally appropriate.
Very on brand.
Especially for Easter.
And just to be clear, this was not my idea.
This was clearly influenced by a TikTok ad.
I am simply a victim of highly targeted marketing.
Anyway.
I put in a prompt, hit generate, and suddenly—
there she is.
An Easter pin-up version of me.
And honestly?
It mostly, sort of, kind of looks like me.
Which feels both impressive and slightly concerning.
So of course I do what any reasonable person would do—
I tweak the prompt.
Because now I’m curious.
Let’s see what happens next.
The image starts generating…
and I can see it forming—blurry at first—
and I’m like, oh wow, she’s looking very confident… very… bold… very… is that sexy?
…and then—
Poof.
Gone.
Replaced with a message saying the image can’t be shown
because it violates content policies.
Excuse me??
So I try again.
Same thing.
Again.
Blocked.
At this point, I’m in a full back-and-forth with AI,
which apparently has decided that my digital twin
is simply too much for the internet to handle.
So I adjust the prompt:
“Make it less sexy.”
And just like that—
problem solved.
Now I’m an Easter pin-up girl ready for a magazine spread
that could sit comfortably next to a basket of pastel eggs
and not offend anyone’s grandmother.
But of course I keep going.
Because why stop
when ChatGPT clearly wants to make me extra sexy…
and then immediately regrets it
and refuses to show me?
It’s like watching someone hype you up
and then panic halfway through.
Meanwhile, I’m over here laughing in bed,
definitely being environmentally irresponsible
with my late-night AI experiments…
…but honestly?
Worth it.






