A fun feature of Midjourney is that even when it misses the mark, its efforts can be valuable for other projects. The image above seems to show how the famed “thunderbird” might have terrorized ranchers — and could find use in a Weird West idea I’m developing. For the record, here’s the prompt that generated this image…

Generate a primitive, hastily completed doodle sketch that a cowboy under hypnosis might create to illustrate seeing cattle abducted by extraterrestrials. Despite being an amateurishly created drawing, the images should look scary. This drawing should be shown on a ruled sheet of three-hole notebook paper. –ar 16:9 –v 6.1 –stylize 0 –weird 600