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For this issue, we examined how language, cultural context, and AI training data shape the ways machine-learning systems visualize ideas. We began by feeding each article’s abstract—in both English and Simplified Chinese—into DeepSeek, generating two distinct image prompts for each version. We then passed these paired prompts to Midjourney, creating a set of visual outputs that reflect how the same underlying concept can diverge across languages and cultural framings.

When presented side-by-side, these images and prompts reveal sometimes subtle and sometimes striking differences in how AI models interpret identical concepts depending on linguistic and cultural input.

Scroll down to explore the full gallery. Each image pair is grouped by article, accompanied by its prompt and metadata. Through this bilingual, multimodal experiment, we invite you to reflect on what it means for AI to “see” and re-see our world.

在本特刊中,我们探讨了语言、文化语境与 AI 训练数据 如何影响机器学习系统对概念的可视化方式。我们首先将每篇文章的英文与简体中文摘要输入 DeepSeek,以此生成两组不同的图像提示词。随后,我们将这些成对的提示词交给 Midjourney 进行图像生成,得到了一系列视觉输出,用以呈现相同概念在不同语言与文化框架下的分化方式。

当这些图像与提示词并置呈现时,人们可以看到人工智能模型在面对相同概念的时候,因语言与文化输入的差异而给出的时而细微、时而显著的不同诠释。

向下滚动以查看完整图像集。每组图像均按文章排列,并附有相应的提示词与元数据。通过这一双语、多模态的实验,我们邀请您思考:当人工智能“看见”并重新“看见”我们的世界时,这意味着什么。

A cycad tree in a forest with glowing objects flying in the starry night sky above.
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A photorealistic digital painting of a lone, ancient male cycad under a vast, starry sky. A swarm of bioluminescent drone lights hovers above like fireflies, their beams scanning the dark, primordial landscape in a magical realist style, symbolizing the high-tech search for the missing female.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A wet-on-wet ink drawing showing a cycad tree with the impression of trees and mountains behind, and a whispy, vaguely mechancial object flying above it.
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一幅水墨与数字合成风格的作品。画中心是一株孤独的雄性苏铁,线条苍劲。背景是模糊的、克隆重复的苏铁林。一只抽象的、发光的无人机像一只寻巢的鸟儿,在迷雾笼罩的山峦间穿梭,风格忧郁而空灵。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
Countless overlapping gold lines of unidentifiable architecural renderings surround a tree stump against a dark background.
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An impressionistic 3D render of a vibrant, sustainable city growing from an old tree stump. Flowing streams of light and geometric patterns intertwine with the architecture, visualizing collaborative data and blueprints in a digital placemaking process.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
An illustration of a diverse group of people surrounded by greenery reaching toward the center to touch an orb with a city inside.
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一幅充满细节的社区壁画风格插画。不同年龄和背景的人围成一个圈,共同触摸一个发光的球体。球体内是一个由他们集体想象构建出的绿色、公平的虚拟城市景观,正缓缓变为现实,照亮他们的脸庞。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
Three panels: the first shows a glowing, robed person speaking to a room full of men; the second is a glowing, complex network, vaguely mycelial yet neural; the last is a galaxy filled with mycelial webbing.
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A classical painting style triptych. The left panel shows an ethereal figure debating with scholars. The center is a luminous, complex neural network morphing into organic structures. The right panel synthesizes into a vision of wisdom: a serene, perfectly structured galaxy.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A minimal graphite and ink drawing of a net of lines and dots being held on one corner by a silhouetted human figure.
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一幅具有哲学意蕴的抽象水墨画。画面中心是十五个墨点,通过纤细而有力的线条连接成一个不断生长、变化的网络。一个由光点构成的智慧身影正在向网络提问,每一次对话都让网络结构变得更加和谐与深邃。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A net of crystalline threads refracting line against a black background. In the upper left an intersection glows brightly, and to its lower right the threads open to a section of solid darkness.
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A conceptual photograph of a complex, shimmering net of lights against a dark background, like a neural network of stars. A "ray of hope" is depicted as a beam of warm light refracting through crystals, while "repression" is shown as a dark knot where light is trapped and dimmed.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A glowing orb surrounded by swirling lines and sparkles against a dark background.
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一件动态的数字冥想装置艺术视觉图。无数光点组成一张巨大的、不断流动的网。一个代表“思绪”的光球在网中穿行,遇到“绝妙想法”时发出璀璨光芒并折射;遇到“压抑”时则光线扭曲、变暗,变得难以穿透。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A bright, graphic, textured illustration in pink, yellow, blue, black, and white. Several people in a circle raise their hands toward a floating orb. Around them are objects that resemble puzzle balls and cubes, and in the background are indeterminate icons.
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A bright, optimistic pop art style illustration. Diverse students are building colorful, geometric AI controllers with their hands, no screens in sight. The AI is represented as a friendly, glowing orb above them, guiding rather than instructing, in a classroom filled with creative energy.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
Nine smiling boys crowd around a table neatly laid out with various unidentifiable devices. The center boy holds a glowing device.
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一幅明亮简洁的扁平风插画。不同背景的学生们围坐在一张大桌子旁,桌上散落着各种形状的模块化工具包组件。他们正笑着用手组合出一个发光的控制器,象征着无需代码的、具身的互动学习体验。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A jaguar with galaxy patterned ears and snout faces a humanoid robot, surrounded by circuit boards and plants.
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A surrealist painting where a modern AI circuit board is overgrown with lush Amazonian vegetation and ancient indigenous patterns. A jaguar made of starlight walks alongside a robot, merging technology with traditional cosmology to form a new, wise planetary consciousness.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A tree grows with visible roots full of glowing circuits and a light shining at the base of its trunk. In the night sky above, an indeterminate shape, like a space ship, covers the entire top of the picture.
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一幅融合了拉丁美洲魔幻现实主义与科技感的织毯图案。传统的土著符号与未来感的电路纹路交织在一起。中心是一个发光的智慧之树,它的根须是数据线,深入土地;枝叶是星辰,连接宇宙,象征着人工智慧的新范式。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A soft-focus close-up of a dog sleeping on a blanket. A human hand touches its paw gently, reaching in from the right. From the left, a robotic hand with exposed wires lays by the dog's head, with another arm extending to join the human hand.
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A tender, intimate photograph in a soft focus style. A human hand gently rests on a robotic arm that is simultaneously cradling a wounded animal. Light pulses between them, visualizing the transfer of radical care and the creation of a caring intention within the machine.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A robot torso ending in two nubs made of glass over exposed machinery and wires. A glass bird sits facing the robot on its outstretched hand, a raindow refracting through its back. Behind them a glass, irisescent arch is partially visible.
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一件温暖且充满共情感的玻璃雕塑作品。一个由透明玻璃电路与磨砂玻璃构成的AI实体,正用它光滑的机械臂,小心翼翼地用一束光喂养一只水晶小鸟。光线在玻璃间折射出柔和光谱,背景是层层叠叠、象征庇护的弧形玻璃片。整体作品利用光的通透性与玻璃的脆弱感,强调关怀的治愈与联结。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
Abstract thick, textured blocks of colorful paint, as though applied with a palette knife. Orange, red, purple, yellow, blue, and pink.
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An abstract expressionist painting. Thick, textured strokes of paint in bold colors represent different perceptual modes—object-based, spatial, associative. They overlap and blend, creating a harmonious and complex whole from the chaos, symbolizing machines helping humans overcome bias.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
Billowing colorful clouds emerging from a vortex on a cream background. The cloud is blue, pink, red, orange, and green.
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一幅受水墨画启发的动态数据可视化图。不再是单一的焦点,画面中有多个“注意力”的涟漪同时散开、交织。每个涟漪都有不同的颜色和纹理,代表不同的感知模式,它们共同构成一幅和谐而多元的图景。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A technical drawing of a machine made of wood, metal, and gears. A brain emerges from the machine, floating above.
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A vintage technical drawing style depicting an "Accidental Machine"—a complex, Rube Goldberg-esque device made of gears and levers that somehow produces a glowing, abstract shape of a human brain, questioning the form and origin of our technological creations.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A block print of a machine with some large visible gears covered in vines. The vague impression of a human face emerges from a cluster of vines on the machine.
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一幅充满力量感的黑白木刻版画。画面中心是一台由老式打字机齿轮、断裂的机械臂和纠缠的电线组成的“意外机器”。所有元素被强行挤压在同一个空间内。在机器的核心处,负形空间巧妙地构成一个清晰的人形剪影,仿佛正从机械的禁锢中挣脱出来。粗犷的刀法和强烈的黑白对比,强化了技术与人性的张力与对抗感。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A glitching human figure wearing a white shirt standing in a futuristic room that looks like a data bank. The person's face is obscured, but you can see their hands reach forward slightly.
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A glitch art photomontage. A human figure is fractured into pixelated shards by addictive UI elements. In the background, a schematic of the hippocampus overlaps a server rack diagram. Bioluminescent data streams bridge the two, converting dissonant glitches into a harmonious, resonant frequency that reconstructs the figure.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A stone human statue shown from shoulders up, breaking in pieces with gold, glowing cracks.
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一幅数字水墨风格的概念画:破碎的虚拟化身如瓷片般悬浮在暗色数据流中,左侧是生物海马体的水墨晕染脉络,右侧是AI强化网络的几何光流。金线从两侧延伸交织,在画面中央重构出一个完整的人形光晕,象征身心在虚拟空间中的重新整合。采用工笔与写意结合的技法。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A clock painted in a grid, with half of the clock dissolving in patterns and colors, including binary code and flowing ribbons of color. The minute hand points to 1, and the hour hand, partially obscured, points to where 10 would be.
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A cubist painting fragmenting a classical clock. Pieces of binary code and rigid geometric patterns impose their grid over organic, flowing representations of seasonal cycles, showing the tension and embedding of quantified time into our lives.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A 3D rendering in a white box of a clock with gears and circuit board visible and no numbers, suspended by an off-center rod to something above out of frame. The right side is fragmenting, and it has only one hand, pointing where 2 would be.
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一件装置艺术摄影。一个传统的机械钟表内部,齿轮已被替换成微小的芯片和发光的代码。钟摆摆动时,投射出的阴影是不断加速翻滚的几何图形和加载动画,视觉化地呈现了时间被计算与碎片化的过程。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
In the left half, a photorealistic hand draws an architectural plan. In the right half, A large window streams light into the corner of a grand room, with a human figure silhouetted standing outside.
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A diptych. Left: a hand meticulously drafts a room with a T-square, showing the foundation of design. Right: an AI generates a flawless, hyper-realistic rendering of the same room. A faint, concerned reflection of the student is visible in the AI's perfect window.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A hand holds up a paintbrush, except the bristles are turn 90 degrees and placed on the upright handle. The image is split down the middle of the brush, with the left side sketched and the right rendered. The bristles on the left are clean, and the right ones are gray.
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一幅分屏图像。左边是一张在描图纸上精心手绘的建筑草图,可见铅笔痕迹和修改。右边是同一空间的超写实数字效果图,完美但冰冷。一支画笔横跨分界线,其笔刷从石墨灰色渐变为完美的像素。风格为照片级真实的纹理。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
An oil painting of forest cliffs overlooking a river, with a deer standing at the edge. The sun has a pupil: a shining eye in the sky.
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A wide-angle landscape photograph in the style of the Hudson River School. The scene is familiar yet alien, viewed from a post-anthropocentric perspective. A deer looks at a mysterious, non-human intelligence (a glowing orb) in the forest, questioning the limits of human-centric cognition.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
Various plants and corals crowd the foreground. An insect balances on a blade of grass. In the background more insects hover over a golden plain, with a faceted sky above.
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一幅宁静的生态艺术画卷。视角放得很低,仿佛来自一只昆虫或一棵草。人类世界的物件在背景中模糊不清,而前景中真菌的网络、树叶的脉络清晰可见,展现了一个超越人类中心主义的、由多种生命形式认知构成的世界。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
Two robots face one another. The left one's body is not visible, but its head glows a stark white, with only the outline of an ear differentiated. The right one is covered in a shiny white latex, aside from an exposed mechanical neck. They share a pair of wired earbuds.
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Two figures stand facing each other. One is a human made of faint, projected light. The other is an AI made of smooth, flesh-like silicone. They are connected by mirrored filaments, and their features slowly shift to reflect the other. The scene is minimalist, in a stark white gallery space. Uncanny valley realism.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A man walks down a hallway with marble floors. The mirrored wall on the left shows his reflection with glowing symbols streaming from it to the ceiling. On the right, a floor-to-ceiling metallic mask smiles down on him.
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一个极简的镜面空间概念图。参观者站在中间,一侧的镜子里是他/她的数字分身;另一侧的镜子里是一个光滑的硅胶实体,其形态却随着观众的互动浮现出类似观众的表情,诠释“镜像身份”的共生关系。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
In a foggy forest, a towering ivy-covered stone arch is filled by a glowing blue neural network. At the base, a small figure touches the arch, and light spreads from their hand.
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A towering, ancient stone archway covered in ivy stands in a misty forest. Through its frame, a shimmering, complex neural network is visible, as if the arch is a portal between nature and technology. At the base, a person gently touches the stone, causing delicate light patterns to bloom like vines across its surface. Style: digital painting with a photorealistic texture and soft, ethereal lighting.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
An ink drawing of a hand holding a pointed tool with an engraved handle, light emerging from the point, with maze-like patterns and vines surrounding.
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一幅具有版画质感的装饰画。一只人类的手掌握着一把刻刀,正在精心雕琢一个发光的、复杂的算法模型。刀锋过处,流淌出象征想象力与智慧的枝叶与光芒,强调人的能动性在塑造未来中的核心作用。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A woman wearing a dress and headscarf sits on a low bench in a library. A galactical explosion of large marble-like orbs, clouds, and glowing colors swirl in front of the shelves.
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A person sits in a vast, empty library with endless shelves. Instead of books, the shelves hold orbs of softly swirling, colored light, each representing a different cultural archive. The person whispers, and a new, perfectly bound book, its cover a mosaic of the swirling lights, materializes instantly in their hands. Style: Magical realism, with a focus on the tactile feel of the book and the ethereal glow of the orbs.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A collaged graphic on a bright yellow background of a grey hand pointing up at a grey cloud, blue spreading onto the cloud from the pointed finger. Below are blue hills and trees. Indecipherable text, icons, and diagrams are scattered across.
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一幅波普艺术风格的信息图。一个巨大的、充满各种文化符号的“概率云”在翻滚。一只代表用户的手,只用一根手指引导,就从云中自然地合成出了一幅全新的、混合风格的画作,界面简单至极。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A seed packet with a rectangular cut-out, spilling out small circuit boards and stones.
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A still life of a simple brown paper seed packet lying on a scientist's workbench. Spilling from its open top are not seeds, but dozens of tiny, geometric, bio-degradable microchips and actuators, resembling a mix of organic seeds and sophisticated circuitry. The style is a detailed, high-resolution photograph with soft, natural light.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A glass human heart with glowing circuit veins, laying on the mossy earth.
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一件静物摄影:由半透明可降解聚合物雕刻的人类心脏与几何种子融合。表面蚀刻着发光蕨叶状电路,置于苔藓与原始土壤上。柔和戏剧性光线突出有机与合成材质的交融,象征物理智能及与自然的共生。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月
A watercolor and ink sketch across six pages (three by two). To the left, a rocket is docked, to the right, an explosion of color. Across the bottom three pages, a outstretch human hand merges with a mechanical hand.
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A surreal triptych in a weathered scientific journal. Panel one: A vintage rocket sketched over a star chart. Panel two: A synthetic, geometric nutrient bar under a microscope lens. Panel three: A detailed study of a human hand touching a robot's hand, with biological and circuit diagrams overlapping in the margins. Rendered in watercolor and ink, evoking a sense of academic curiosity and eerie beauty.

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 & MIDJOURNEY V7, AUGUST 2025
A robot looks over a table set with a large bowl containing a ball of rice and a serving platter containing a smaller, steaming rice bowl and a hexagonal, butter-yellow polyhedron.
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一幅融合科幻与现实主义风格的布面油画。画面中心是一个未来主义的银色餐盘,盛着一颗几何形状的"功能性食物胶囊",旁边却放着一碗冒着热气的传统白米饭。餐盘后方,一个设计流畅的机器人正向观众提出一个未言明的问题,而窗外,一艘复古风格的飞船正驶向星空。整个场景笼罩在暖色调的灯光下,模糊了未来与传统的边界,引发对技术与人性的沉思。

DEEPSEEK-V3.1 与 MIDJOURNEY V7,2025年8月