These came out of BigGAN mixing tests in an experimental ComfyUI patch in 2024. I went mostly by feel. What came out were mannequins with their insides out: wires for veins, circuit boards where the guts should be, plastic skin that almost passes for real, and then doesn't.
The images I kept are the ones where something seems to be going on. A head is being held, a cable connected, a body opened on a table. Repair, autopsy or care? The GAN doesn't know the difference, and often neither do I.
BigGAN is already media-archaeological, a 2018 model trained on photographs of the everyday world. Here it tries to picture bodies it has never seen, half human and half electronics. Can a machine look after another machine? Would it "feel" anything if it did?