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Poised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while she looks dreamily upward, as if to say “Who, me?”

The woman in the red dress is Australian comedian Alice Fraser, as photographed on stage. The other women - generic superheroes and 1950s housewives - were created using the generative AI software Krea.