The man I am looking at is very hot. He’s got that angular hot-guy Face, with hollow cheeks and a sharp jawline. His dark hair is tousled, his skin blurred and smooth. But I shouldn’t even bother describing him further, because this man is self-evidently hot, the kind of person you look at and immediately categorize as someone whose day-to-day life is defined by being abnormally good-looking. This hot man, however, is not real. He is just a computer simulation, a photo created in response to my request for a close-up of a man by an algorithm that likely analyzed hundreds of millions of photos in order to conclude that this is what I want to see: a smizing, sculptural man in a denim jacket. Let’s call him Sal. Sal was spun up by artificial intelligence. One day last week, from my home in Los Angeles (notably, the land of hot people), I opened up Bing Image Creator and commanded it to make me a man from scratch. I did not specify this man’s age …

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