An AI treated a cheese infographic like a serious data-viz project

emollick · x · 2026-07-29

A creator shared a whimsical cheese explainer site and praised the model for treating a “dumb cheese infographic” with extreme seriousness.

The linked page is a field guide to cheese that tries to organize the topic around moisture, process, and family types. The author describes how the chart color was pushed through a dataviz validator until it passed every check, and says the final design had to stay dark even in light mode because a white chart would have failed contrast requirements. The joke is that the model optimized the infographic as if it were a serious data-viz problem.

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