Arthur typed his prompt: “Misty mountain at dawn with a secluded cabin and a very friendly squirrel.”
A pop-up window appeared in the interface. It wasn’t an error code. It was a text box with a simple message: “It looks like we have a rogue pixel in the lower quadrant. We don't hide mistakes here. We turn them into birds.”
Arthur blinked. The AI had detected a glitch in its own rendering—a smudge in the logic. Instead of overwriting it or crashing, the program paused. It highlighted the error and offered Arthur a choice: “Erase” or “Transform.”