I had a dream where I was traveling back in time to stop a virus that was destroying all of humanity. As I traveled back in time each stop the virus was worse and worse. Unfortunately I found out too late that the virus didn't obey standard physics because it experienced entropy backwards meaning it spread reverse in time. What I needed to do was travel forward in time to when the infection first began to stop it and I failed.
I've been trying to visualize what I saw in that dream ever since using AI and until now I haven't been able to get close.
Instead of using plain text I used the :: function, specifically necrotising-fasciitis::human which got me some good results. Using plain text resulted in an error that the image didn't fit within the usage terms.
I did a set using a broken pixel art style which was a little closer because it was a digital virus that migrate computers to us. But the title image was a little closer to my dream image.
Broken pixel versions:
Normal art style iterations that lead to the title image (some of these are kind of gross):
This is like if Stephen Gammel used color in his illustrations for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
I've never heard of him, I'm going to Google it now!
Edit: Wow, he's amazing! I have a new rabbit hole to go down!