I’ve been doing my best to stay in rhythm with where future tech is headed—and this past week has been a trip. While juggling some exciting client design work (more on that soon), I also launched a new creative partnership here in NC and started designing art for my baby girl’s room. But somewhere between all of that, I made time to sit with the new ChatGPT-4o update. And trust me, it deserves more than just a casual scroll.

There’s been a strange fixation lately on the word “Ghibli,” almost like a litmus test for what people expect AI to be. But if you’re wired to think beyond the algorithm—shout out to the visionaries and builders—this new update is a full-on playground. Textures. Styles. Overlays. Cities. Nations. Dimensions. It’s deeper than prompts. To explore that, I used Mr. Rogers as an anchor point and asked ChatGPT-4o to imagine him across alternate realities. The results? Surreal, layered, and more expansive than expected. Scroll through the thread to see how deep the rabbit hole really goes.