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This publication was designed based on a selection of the Harvard Sentences

which sounded particularly like idioms. Another detail about them is that they are “deep reals”, the phenomenon of human-made media that feels like it was made with AI (the opposite of a deep fake). They seem like a supposedly wise idiom that is actually quite stupid, which makes us associate it with an AI chatbot. The catch is that these were actually written by humans, and Harvard students at that.

Bearing this in mind, I created a deeply satirical publication which seems smart on the surface but becomes more stupid the closer you look.

The images are paintings and photos that have something in common with a real idiom, not the Harvard sentence fake idiom. For example, “The first worm gets snapped early” (Harvard Sentence) is similar to the idiom “The early bird gets the worm”, so I’ve included a painting of a young girl holding a bird. Then, the painting was treated by the horrendous Adobe image extender to give the painting an “off” feeling, similar to the Harvard sentences.

There are three of each of the paintings/photos because the image extender gives you three options, and I thought it would be a shame to only use one. And so, all three are included on each page, with three identical captions to add to the stupidity.

Possibly the dumbest detail of the publication is its colour, which emulates the Harvard crimson, but spells out “Boobie” when looking at the hex code (#Boo813). Do with that what you will.