AI can Transfix you, and bring Success

John Toomey

28 Sep 2025 — 1 min read

Different color strokes for Different Folks

Remember the famous Internet phenomenon years ago when a picture of a dress looked blue to some people, and gold to others?

You can create the same thing with ChatGPT 5.0. I just did. The result is above. Different people report at least 4 different colors for this knitted wool cap.

What's interesting is that I created the image 5 minutes ago. That's when I got the idea. I only know that people see different colors in it because there were 4 people in the room as Chat made it.

The point here is not that you should make artificial illusion images, but that many things that have gone viral, or have even changed lives, can now be created instantly thanks to AI. There must be hundreds of examples. We only need to think of them.

I have 2 questions for you:

A. What color do you think the cap is?

B. What web phenomenon can you think of that went viral some time in the last 30 years, that you can re-create (or refine or riff off of) now?

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How Chat can tell you today what you will do later

It took me a while to write that headline, and it's not long enough to express what I was trying to say. The point I was making is that an AI like ChatGPT 5.0 or Gemini if carefully prompted can tell your future, in a way. What

Your Emotional Portals are Gateways to your Soul

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Or is it?

When I found this quote by Albert Einstein, I immediately had all sorts of thoughts about how this works, and how it has appeared in my own life. I was going to brain dump all that stuff here, but then I thought: I'd MUCH RATHER hear examples from

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Or is it?