The AI art company just got very, very personal. Pull up a chair.
Midjourney is reportedly developing a body scanner. And yes, that means what you think it means.
Midjourney, the AI company that turned half the internet into overnight concept artists, has just made a move that nobody in the tech world saw coming. And I genuinely mean nobody.
The company famous for creating stunning AI-generated images is reportedly developing a body scanner.
Yes, a body scanner.
Because apparently AI has now graduated from generating fantasy warriors and futuristic cityscapes to analysing what's underneath your favourite hoodie.
If successful, AI-powered body scanning could revolutionise everything from online shopping and fitness tracking to healthcare and personalised fashion. Imagine ordering clothes online that actually fit the first time. Revolutionary, I know.
The technology could potentially create highly accurate digital versions of our bodies, helping retailers reduce returns, fitness apps track progress more precisely, and healthcare providers monitor physical changes over time.
But let's be honest. Every time a tech company says they're collecting more data about us "to improve the user experience," most of us immediately wonder what could possibly go wrong.
We've already handed over our photos, our search history, our shopping habits, our conversations and, in some cases, our deepest emotional struggles to AI chatbots at three in the morning.
Now they want our body measurements too.
At this rate, AI will know we're about to gain weight before we've even looked at a biscuit.
The bigger story here isn't actually the scanner itself. It's that AI companies are rapidly moving beyond software and into understanding the physical world. AI is no longer just reading text, generating images or answering questions. It's beginning to interpret humans in increasingly detailed ways.
Today's AI understands what you write. Tomorrow's AI may understand how you move. The next generation may understand how you feel before you do.
The winners in AI over the next decade won't just be the companies building smarter language models. They'll be the companies collecting unique real-world data that nobody else has.
And your body may become one of the most valuable datasets on the planet.
The question isn't whether this technology will arrive. The question is whether we'll still be reading the privacy policy when it does.