It’s-a me, Mario

Mar 10

Written By Eric Decker

The melty face of an Italian plumber, created in November of 2021

The same Italian plumber, but run though MidJourney v4 in March, 2023

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And again, quickly rerun in MidJourney v7 and chatGPT in 2025…

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Eric Decker

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