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Every brand typed a different prompt into an image model this morning and got back the same picture. You clocked it as AI in about a second. So did their customers. Image models are trained to predict the most likely pixels given everything they've ever seen. Likely means common, and common means average. So every output drifts toward the center of the training data: the same orange-and-teal glow, the same font that's almost Helvetica with one letter melting. And it compounds. Those images…